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The Huron Expositor, 1943-11-26, Page 7• A , II alriifarlal,,.,o11Alitkpra,; Eike., P4r1clt P.:M'eCOnnell H. Olean Ixays 'SFA'f!'olt'.Ili `OT Tel, Hobe 1,74 K. I. McLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. SEAPORT$ - 'ONTARIO Branch Office -- Hen aU ° Hensen •Seaforth Phone 113 none 173 'MEDICAL .SEA1'ORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and "modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics .equipment. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist ,in diseases of the- ear, eye,' nose and •threat, will be -at the Clinic the first Tuesday in -'every month froth 3 to 5 open. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday every month from T to,2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, M.A., B.D.: Physician and Surgeon IN DR, H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 6-W Seaforth Res. 5-J MARTIN. W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W, C. Sproat Phone 90-W - Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat C raduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic first Tneaday of each month. 53 Waterloo Street S,puth, Stratford. AUCTIONEERS HetROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc:, write or phone Harold Jackson, 14 on 661; Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. 'EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron 'Correspondence promptly answered: Immediate arrangements' can be made for Sales Dates at The Huron Exposi- tor, Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203, Clinton. Charges moderate and satis- faction guaranteed. LONDON 'and CLINTON . NORTH A.M. 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Mught Too WEST SlorontO : SteNanght ;V aitch 2311t11,, 'Auburn !McGaw , Meneset il3oder1eli 40e CHAPTER 111 Big-hearted Sarah Daffodil acts In every capacity, for the four - family house in Garret after her husband's death., The frugal, el- deny Mr. and Mrs. Peppercorn and the newly-wed Andrew and Candace Thane occupy the two top -floor apartments and below them middle-aged Bert Fitts and his wife -who is too engrossed in war activities to care for her home -and King Waters' --eteran of World War I and his wife,'Em- ma, a devotee of fine crocheting. -Ta ii Fitts .decides{ 'to call upon Candace and sign her up for vol- unteer wort;. The old lady shook her head. She had a good deal of very white flair massed under her brown hat. Though both hat and -the black coat she wore were perfectly neat, the one was too large and the other too long to be mistaken for the season's models. "They're nice, quiet folks," Mrs. Pep- percorn volunteered. "It's hard to tell when, they're in or when they're out." Under her arm .a -bindle of silky. white stirred and the bright, mischievous eyes of "Doggie," her poodle, leered at the efficient Toni. "Well, I hope Mrs, Thane is home -I tried to phone, dint they have no telephone." Toni had been honestly startled by 'tier discovery earlier that evening. "I do wish you'd come down to the workrooms, Mrs. Peppercorn, and see what 'wonderful things are being turned out. You couldn't resist sewing for us, I'm sure." The old lady absently stroked the dog's curly head. "I'm' not resisting, my dear." "Well-" Toni tentatively raised a rather bony knee. "I must run along. I left my husband tending the phone and it's never long before a message follows me, no matter where I go. Good night, Mrs. 'Peppercorn -Dog- gie's feeling, fine, I see." She climbed the stairs correctly and arrived, very •soldierly and erect. at the door of 3-A. She smiled and extended her hand cordially as An- drew Thane, opened the door. "Mr. Thane, of course, I'm Mrs. Bertram Fitts -your neighbor in 2-B. I'd love to come in a few minutes and see your wife, if she is at home." She was at home, the dark young man was assuring her, holding the door hospitably wide. A'step into the scuare hall, then another into the large, pleasant living room and a tiny figure turned from the fire and cross- edthe rug to greet her guest. "My wife, Mrs. Fitts." Young Thane spoke as if he were presenting the Fairy Queen. "You sew?" Toni Fitts glanced cur- iously about the room. She had a book that, showed how to cut and make slip covers, Candace said. "I haven't a machine and that ,handicaps me to some extent. I get the covers cut out and pasted, then I, fit them and make alterations• if nec- essary and then I take them to a friend's. _house where there is a ma- chine. The basting is tricky, but I'm learning it." • Toni listened half -absently. It was- n't the kind of room that appealed to her, she decided, but her tastes were modernistic. "We love the apartment," Candace Thane said, smiling above the flower- ed cretonne that filled her lap. Candace said earnestly, "I'm mak- ing slip covers for the faded uphol- stery---rwe had it cleaned. We paint- ed the bookshelves and Andy is going to do a tot more as he has time. He's really a -genius with paint 'brushes." The, rug, she painted out, was a Brussels carpet square, sprinkled thickly with tiny wreaths of pink and blue roses. "It was Andy's grand- mother's carpet. We found it in-- his attic. I wish we had a pair of those china dogs with curly heads, to sit on either side of the fireplace.'; "Yes, I've seen,„them." Toni straightened. "Sucthings are all very pleasant" • under normal condi- tions and in a normal world. I may as well tell you, Mrs. fi'hane, that I'm hoping to enlist you in a cause that's taking myr time and attention to the exclusion of everything else. I refer to the struggle being waged for. dem- ocracy." Toni Fitts took a guly from her gless, set it down with such in- VQ1untary emphasis that it threaten- ed to crack the crystal Coaster. A.M. 8.20 P.M. 12.04, 12,15 13,28 12.39 12.47 12.54 1:00 "We need clerical help at the work- room where -We're packing boxes for Britain," she went on. "We need donations, but helpers also. Just two evenings a week of your time, Mrs. Thane, will give us a tremendous lift. And how about parading? I'm to dead the women vho are grouping for national defense. In time we'll have uniforms., but we don't want to spend thirty dollars on a uniform, until • we know what our duties will he." ' Quiet people 'baffled,• Toni Fitts, who believed it everyone5s duty to keep couversat!gn flowing as freely as salt. "Surely you can come to us for one evening a week, Mrs. Thane?" Toni suggested.' She was `sorry, Candace Thane said Clearly. "We need our evenings, An dy and I. Neither of us makes an, en gagemeht that ties us up in Mance MIIIIIIMIGGIMMmomigimoMMIMMORMIRIP My s'han i studies three nights a week, here at home. The rest of the time we need to get our rooms in `good order." There was something old-fashioned about the setup, Toni decided. Aloud she said, 'We're all making sacrifices.. It might help your to do mbre, for others, if you budgeted your lime. Naw, for instance, if you had a tele- phone-", They couldn't afford 'a phone, Can- dace demurred, turning a radiant face towards her husband. "And the way we feel about our time -well, everything is so uncertain, we place a high value on the hours we can have together." The older woman shrugged her thin shoulders. "You took an awful chance getting 'married before your husband was -called. - There's been a lot of criticism of men .who married after the Act was passed and then claimed exemption." "I'm not, claiming exemption." An- drew Thane looked soberly at the fire. Toni sighed. "Well, I've wasted an' hour. And I dashed,up here without my knitting, so I've accomplished just nothing. I don't suppose you'd agree to knit, Mrs. Thane? We supply wool at cost to those who are able to pay for it." "Perhaps a little later." Candace- •smiied. "If• a dollar will be of any .help to the wool fund, I'll be glad to give you that. You have a' dollar, haven't you, Andy?" His curiously old, veined hands brought, out his new; saddle -stitched wallet and his stubby, blunt -tipped fingers extracted a clean dollar bill: "You ought to get your wife one of our pins, Mr. Thane." Toni took the dollar with a brief "Thanks." The pins •sold for as little as two dollars and a half, she continued, and were the sort of thing that in time became heirlooms. Someone wished to speak to Mrs Andrew Thane on the outside phone, Sarah Daffodil announced on the house phone a few evenings later. "I offered to take the message, but it's very personal," Sarah said cheer- fully, when Candace Thane came down. "There on my desk --I'11 be ip the kitchen, if you need me." The telephone conversation lasted less than five minutes. 'Molasses -col- ored lights gleamed in Candace's wide deep waves as she put her head in, at the kitchens doo4. "Thank you so much, Mrs. Daffodil. It wasn't so very personal -a woman I'd never met." "My grandmother's sewing chair has a soothing effect on the nerves," Sar- ah seated herself on the lovely carv- ed 'sofa and waited. Candace's steady fingers lighted both cigarettes. "I'm 'not upset, only annoyed. That call was from the Ari- tish workrooms. They-eitpected me down there this evening, to straight- en out their files. A Mrs, Graham phoned and she insisted I am pledged to work two evenings a. week." "So?" • "The simpe truth is that I've refus- ed from the first. Mrs. Fitts asked me, then someone, named Myrtle Ryd- er wrote me and tonight thin director - in -charge calls. No one understands. Andy says it isn't necessary that they do. Do you think it is necessary, Mrs. Daffodil?" n -Sarah put er raughened hand over the smooth Litt a palm upturned on the girl's lap. "Do I .think explana- tions necessary? Not unless you need to convince yourselves." "You have always understood, hav- en't you?;" The q\tiet, clear voice did not quicken or faker, yet heartache and unshed tears lay for a moment unconcealed behind "the.,,,,tranquil brown eyes. "There are so many like us," Candace said. "We are young now,„ but no, one is young very long," That's it, thought Sarah. I've won- dered what it is so, different about them and- now I know. It's their ter, rible awareness -no ,other generation butatook youth for granted. We as- sumed it lasted forever. They don't. A fragment of verse published• in the world war she remembered, still haunted her, returned to her mind now: '!'T'hey give their : youth.. God bless them, as lightly as a rose." But this generation 'of children, Sarah re- flected heavily, has learned some- how what no youngster should ,know -how briefly we are young. Aloud she murmured, "You're just begin - tang to live, my dear." • "We looked' at it from all angles," Candace Thane said. "'And we decid- ed that ng matter what might happen we'd have a few weeks or months or perhaps a year of normal, happy mar- riage. If we :waited until after the Wax-" "We're not at war." The girl said with a grove certainty that chilled the ;elder woman, "We shall he. But we flkured that if we waited, nothing ,,could ever be the sanie. Andy might come home disab- led; or he might not come 'home at all. We'd be older and there'd be all the memories of our loneliness and unhappy separation: Now already we have had eemrething that nothing can take away; we've been 'happy while we're:young." • - "Ahdy and t don't go about senti- mentally sighing that life le beautiful it --but we •dent take i}, for granted,. either. Every day' we - have together is wonderful. Just ping to business and coming home at. night to each other, means everything. There will -bre plenty of time fQr one to do war work. . Until Andy goes;. we Klan to keep our ft"ee time for .each. other." She had not intended to . stay ""so long, Ca;hdace apologized, or to say so much. Andy would have finished his homework and they had planned' to take in the second run at the movies. "I hope you won't .thinit we're a cou- ple of softies who like to feel sorry for ourselves." Miss Velda was young and blonde and soothing. She said that every- one was nervous these days and that Mrs. Fitts ought to take a little run dawn to Atlantic City. As she talk- ed she shook out snowy towels, drap- ed them about the gaunt, tense, wo- man in the leather -padded chair. "Why don't you take a short vacation over Easter?" "the 'gird urged, deftly backing the chair and its occupant up to the basin. "First thing you know, you'll be having a breakdown." She couldn't go away for Easter,. Toni murmured, closing her eyes as the warm water 'began to cascade ov- er her hair. Perhaps she had, under- taken too much, but she had promis- ed to have four British seamen for dinner that Sunday. "The committee asked us to open our homes and make the men feel as if we were their own families. I'm asking my niece and three of :her friends so the sailors will have some companionship. It meant a lot•• of.. --work, Toni added, because the- newspapers had taken a greatain- terest in the plan and they were sending up photographers to take pic- tures of the dinner table and ' the guests. "My, will you be in the picture too?" Miss Velda's firm long fingers vigor- ously massaged her client's- scalp. Toni didn't know, but she thought it likely. "Of course I'm not keen about it and I really loathe publicity. Still, it's for the organization, not for me., We hope that this is only the start -that women throughout Garset will be willing to follow our example. They say that these men are are pa- thetically grateful to their hostesses and hosts. It means a lot to a man• far away from home to be a guest in a private home. Don't let the water run in my ear." Her cousin's husband was with the Canadian forces, Miss Velda said. "He doesn't care much for the food, but then I've heard that the U. S. has better cooks." (Continued Next Week) Travelling by Train Is a Nightmare In Old Land (By Margaret Butcher) There was a time when the whole place hummed with staff and guests, whenthere were no weeds in the drive and the lawpns were smooth and green. All thatahas changed, but there are no ,moans- -My, hostbss takes her turn with everybody else; yesterday it was the plate and cut- lery, today it is -washing and ironing' for the family. And with it all' she manages to look dainty, pretty and charming -which is much, much more than I could ever contrive, I am afraid. When I settle down to chores I look the part. All the best linen and plate, of course, have been laid away "for the duration;" the laundry -van calls once a fortnight. So we do most of our.. laundry, a bit at a time, and the line in the courtyard usually has a fine d,tlay of , handiwork- The days, wlwith one thing and another, si ply fly; one is forever finding that• it is blackout time -a sure sign that winter is on its'.way again. The years, for us, are divided 'now into two sec- tions: the short bit whet' one can really see, and the long stretch when we. live in a sort of perpetual semi- glooin. Already I'"'ihave, begun my winter-losings. Things disappear - •spectacles, hair nets, slippers, pens -- and the trouble about losing one's spectacles, is that one can't look for them unless they are there! -. But We are much more cheerttil with is new turn of the news. There is -still anatiety, 'of course, as there must always be when folk one cares about are in danger; but the sense of perpetual strain li'as lifted. I•t is. rather as if we'd 'heard that a very sick friend is off the danger list - at last. I don't know how else to describe it. For all that, life isn't precisely a picnic. ;= It gets more and more difficult to buy the things one needs. Small peo- ple and 'outsize' people • are particu- larly unfortunate in this respect, where clothes are concerned. Frocks are to be had of course but the grow- ing prices are` a trifla frightening to a careful loud. If you are small It Means hours of tedious alterations, at home, since the shops being short- handed; often take weeks o a fob; and if . you are an 'outsize' Au. are lucky to get anything at ell. The catch, L hear, is that the mantbfae- Ri1q'ei(► r owl with eXC pilo . ,4t,t ll?a'ne d9lre�it i'aixuin 0;erVer>-ta' I et:, nel=wor,lt o. 1larrt's land I i deo lerldtier `) ibi t I 'fXslg't 111,44e044.X•.'dlDri'' ellp$Ase a#ybody:.elee Rotes mLr .;3lrort- +eoRp f s, ' 4 friend of mine lras ,au$t .been tr:ernen.does17 l4rilled 'by, the gift, of :our pail's Fran Iceland, ft:linnrude very improbable, I' 'MOW. Vho would, have thought that we 'shouldlive to, crow over Q+teel Ings from Iceland, of all places? Gettin g, 'jPare Parts Our real woes begin when we• are in need ,of spare parts. ' My recite went death for weeks and nothing could, be done. One depends so much. on radio now, and 1 was in despair:" Frantic telephoning to the shops al- ways brought the same reply: "Sor- ry, but we can't take on any- repairs -not even if you could get the radio` to us." Engineers are at 'a premium, one man often doing the work of six. But I was lucky enough to run°into a 'real radio expert who was out this way on holiday, and the 'angel came and gave the thing an.overheul. From somewhere he produced a new valve and now all is well. Then the typewriter gave out a really serious matter. , Nobody would take that on either; 'but the butcher's man (for a consideration of cigar- ettes) took it into the town to a clever friend • of. mine, who •repaired it and my •Pal the doctor brought it back 'when he came out this way to 'visit a patient. Thus do we help each oth- er over the rough ground. There real- ly is a, lot of kindness going around you knew. I don't know' where we should ibe• without it. - A Story of the Blitz. Last night l: went out to visit friends near here, and my host, who dida lot of police and rescue work during the London Blitz, -told me an- other good story. Nowadays, when a Blitz story is told, it is with an air of half -apology: a kind of "stop -me - if -'you've -heard -this -one?' manner as be- fits such ancient history. But it is true and I think, worth repeating. It concerns old ady X,, who Is over sev- enty..„She wa alone in her house in London durin that frightful period, and one night, -hetll things' were fair- ly buzzing the police got a telephone call from her. ° "I'd be glad if you'd come round," said her ladyship's quiet voice. "I've got something most unpleasant ,here in bed with me." The rescue squad, anxious and ra- ther intrigued, rushed around, broke into the place and went upstairs. There was the old dear, rolled up in bed_like a cocoon, wibh a great A. A. shell nestling beside her. It had come through the roof and ceiling, dropped on the bed and whizzed a- round till the occupant was tied up with it and totally unable to do any- thing more than stretch out a hand }elsg 1 9,Yx(a3r, dee', Ka�tCa lsk71 htaxs,,{ Q�,erhead.° T,�e- 91.1: lV.FOel s wet0 pi A(?? „Of f grey terse The xFlt alis And Very lottii bot't?n a: sign of t+lrema It really unc elnY, "Now," I saki to ,Aoyse know • What Ila ll,,,, drama of those blind ung, xuYlp tbxe things always 'gets me,;. Travelling g Nightmare. Tommerow I have to.'make a PAT'',, ney across Pngland to • the West Gauntry. 1am not looking forward tQ it, though I have whittled my luggage. down to the last -•stitch. Travelling is likely to be a nightmare, and some- times people have -to stand for hours and hours. I am going to carry a (tiny sketching -stool; then, if the worst 'happens, 1 can have some sort of rest in the corridor. We carry sandwiches and something. to drink, shut our eyes and hope for, the best. The marvel is that the railways man- age so well.' You have only to im- agine the holiday season, with thou- ti { `'O! nt a11.f .lr,anYoAsntei}et.;l',„ g#x dna�ly ,�,atYi, haat,e m t a •� 4"a ..� ,.'� it ani, r {��,R.,�.�alt(� i3eids ad tall1rs "ih? �r i. ,oaks auuterllrt '; alle.4;', e eA1 iY.' s. And, a1?ealtil g otItyo wz i t War, has m�dr :;a 0-10:414.'4ltjy,R!,,�f�iii mals.. One ihas alwa:Vs tlrovgut ql cats as nervgu$ and •periltc, tures,, but they aren't , the that pow SwoQping planes and .;gn4flt le�vt ' them cpld; and as tor'r$R,e31+* appetilf T ---well, •thi3Y% eat 41741114g. tl,at,,,a contaminated, and milk it: I ha. i> seen our 'little, lot do nty of Wa; Ing and o'hop licking afrter, e. OM• dull scrapb moistened with warm wa, It. uS,7rl4t yY ri4 sands of folk moving about on our These are useful creatures too, �Iiv little island, to picture what a tasking in the outhouses and • earning,,; it is for them. 'How they get us a- their keep. This bid house 'cued to: long at all., having given priority to be overrun with rate; the` et agpjrm•�. the troops, is something to wonder illation "bill came to 'overeiglity dal lars a Year -and iirecious little ex- termination stermination at that But the ,Cats have purged the place qr? them, What is more, the old mother -most re. spectably known an ".Mrs. Cat" -has just followed the prevailing fashion and produced a batch of seven in the pottingshed. Seven, if you please! • The gardener has purloined five and caused- them to vanish mysteriously, so now the maternal duties are re- duced' to more reasonable propor tions, for which she must be prig ate- ly grateful, I'm' sure. _. Yes, I th1Llc that war conditions have improved the psychology and status of animals, having cut out that idiotic 'spoiling' which used to irritate people with Common sense. .You no longer hear of puppies being brought up exclus- ively on chicken -and cream? Only the hens refuse to conform, their motto being 'No nice meals,,,no nice eggs'; but I have always thought that there is something very unyielding and Victorian about a hen. It is a - fortnight since I had an egg from the, local shop. When: you ask for ,one the storekeeper looks at you as if yon had put is an -order for peacock's tongues. Nevertheless, we're not doing so badly. Like the animals, I guess we're - non,e the worse for cutting out the spoiling. at. When the trains get into the sta- tion they already look packed, but more folk squeezes in somewhere. As one woman said to me last week. "I opened the door and shoved the two ohildren in somehow. Probably some- body got pushed out. at the opposite side, but I shouldn't know about that!" Another told, me that, on her .'way back from Cornwall, she lost a grip with her husband's, shoes., pyjamas and a chicken in it. Now she is won- dering what that grip will be like when (or if) it turns up again. Of course, the 'Holidays At Home' move- ment is doing a lot to keep people interested and amused ain their own localities, put it's very human, after all, to want a complete change of scene. If you've strap -hung . on the same bus or street .car route for twelve-mapth• you don't want to hang on the 'same strap during your vaca- tion, I suppose. And you don't neces- sarily want to see the same faces op- posite you. I can understand the passion for moving about where it ax - pts; but can't understand the craze for taking luggage. One's only chance of feeling fairly safe on• the luggage question is to have it in one's hand -or in a pack. Securing Ration Cards Then, -before going a'ay, there is the business of getting in touch with the local Food Office'•;and securing an emergency ration card. No, going a- way isn't the airy business it once "Do you hyphenate head -ache?" "Not unless it's a splitting heady acl e." ant Ads Bring Results 4 • Week after week The Huron. 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