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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-12-03, Page 9.1 A 4 4 4, a a •• jrAis. -04111i4I3re, Solici4M. Etc, gatriCIED, McConnell - 11. Glenn Haye SEAFORTH, ONT. TeIeplione 174 K. L McLEAN Barrieter, Solicitor, ,Etc, SEAFORTR • ONTARIO Branch Office Hansen lienSall Seaforth Phone 113, Phone 173 MEDICAL SEAFORTH 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 op -to -date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. ...... • ..... ., As. a: An istmr, opetuaus C IX diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last rhursday. in every month from 1 to 2 P.m. • Clinton JOHN A. GORWILL, M.A., S.D. - . Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W Res. 5-J • Seaforth . . 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 Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal• mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye, and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital,"Loridon, 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 Tuesday of, each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. • .,. AUCTIONEERS Sp HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed 'in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, -etc., write orphone xarold Jackson, 14 on 661, Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. . EDWARD W. ELLIOTT . i Licensed Auctioneer For Huron 1 Correspondence promptly answered. I Immediate arrangements can be made I .or. Sales Dates at The Huron--Exposi- or, Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203, t 31inton. Charges moderate and .s,atit- . 'action gnaranteed. LONDON and CLINTON NORTH ' . 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Mrs. Fitts gets a ;beauty, treat-, ment from Miss Velda and tells her she is going to have four British seedaen for dinner that Sunday. "Well, I'm having roast duck • -.men like duck." Toni closed her eyes as the second soaping got under way "Roast duck, green peas, asparagus and a mixed salad. Ice cream for dessert. And I'll have candles and flowers and my good linens -that's the sort of thing men miss when they are on board ship. At least I don't believe they have tableeloths, do you?" Easter the second Sunday in April, poured out unstinted sunshine, but perversely supplied, a chill wind that discouraged light -weight finery. Wo men wore their mink coats and de- pended on gay flowered hats, to ac- cent the spring motif. Sarah Daffo- dil, who rejoiced annually when 'the forsythia bloomed at the foot of the ga,deo, had planned to spend, the day working in the yard. It was really a respectable sized plot, and Sarah rais- ed her own plants in a cold frame sire had constructed herself. The telephone called her from her gardening a little after eleven o'clock and she was standing in the hall, writ- ing a note for the bulletin board she kept tacked above the mailboxeS, when the Thanes came doWnstairs, dressed for the °street. "We're going to take a long walk before dinner," Candace looked as,bright-eyed as a chipmunk in her brown skirt and jacket, a brown calotte topping her pretty hair. Sarah said 'she envied them. "I've sf had a message from an, old end, an invitation I fell I should t decline. She's seventy-five and e has d nice,, old boy friend. His d has improved, so he's taking us t to dinner. I'd rather 'stay at home d garden, but Abigail pities my sol- ry state. It makes her so happy to ve -me from a lonely 'day with pain - memories -she's sure my memor- are painful." Sarah laughed in- tiously. "Abigail loves to do unto ers and it's my fate to be done un - She always left word oe the bulle- board, when she expected to be sent a,dy length of time, she told • ju fri nn I DU ta a 'ul es 'cc o. floor." •' Without a moment's, hesitation. Can- dace set her door wide. "Mrs. Fitts is sorry, but she was called out of town." (To the subuits, to meet an earl's daughter, she 'reminded her 'conscience.) "We hoped that you would have dinner with us. Won't you come in. and meet my husband?" She left them in the living room with the radio turned on and sought Andy to acquaint him with the start- ling naes that they had four guests 'for dinner. "What in time are we going to feed them?" He, opened the oven door and peered in at the roasting pork, "It smells swell, but there isra en- ough for four hungry men those 'sailors probably eat like prize fight- ers." All• he heed do; Candace said tran- quilly, was to go in and talk 'to the men. "We couldn't tell them point- blank Drat Mrs. Fitte had changed her miry}, could we? Evidently her message didn't reach the right person -at least no one broke the news to those 'poor trusting souls. You go in and be a host, Andy. Build up a fresh Bre' and don't mix the drinks too strong. I'm going across the hall to ask old Mrs. Peppercorn's advice." Although young Mrs. Thane and old Mrs. Peppercorn had hitherto met on- ly on the stairs and, in the hall, they had already discovered that they lik- ed each other and Candace's instinct in turning to the old lady was based mutual trust, Mrs. Peppercorn Solved the problem neatly and with an enthusiasm that added radiance to her practical kindness. "Of course you haven't enough for four extra. No ,couple plans a din- ner for six, unless they've invited company:" The old lady 'thought for a moment, then beamed: "What we can do, is to pool our dinners. What kind of meat are you having?" "Roast pork," Candace disclosed. "We're having roast lamb. Put your pork at one end of the table and have .your husband carve it. Father can carve our' lamb at the other end.- Two kinds of meat always look lavish." The combined dinner provided a gratifying abundance' and second, es' - en third helpings testified to the ap- preciation of the ,guests. They ate and 'talked and laughed, until one of them remembered the dishes to be washed. He was a curly-haired lad under twenty 'and during most of the meal the Peppercorns' affectionate poodle had slumbered on his lap. The boy, his companions asserted, mother- ed all the ship's mascots. "We'll clear 'away and wash up - you just sit and rest," chorused the four, -vvaving huge paws Niaguely to- ward their hostesses. Candace saw old Mrs. Peppercorn's face and signalled , Andy. "You're heading for the movies -all you men," 'the girl directed, smiling _upon them fromTher place behind the percolator that had been, a wedding gift. Wo- men lilted to take their time,' she told them, and she and 'Mrs. Peppercorn would enjoy doing the dishes while they talked. In the great quiet that filled the liv- ing -room after the six men had gone, the old lady and the young wife look- ed at each other across the disorder- ed table. "You are so good!" Can- dace snuffed ,the blue candles and the thin, acrid smoke blended with -the odor of smoked cigarettes. Old 'Mrs. Peppercorn apsently stroked the head of Doggie who rest- ed against her, -his forepaws on her knee. "They, were nice men. And they enjoyed' their dinner. Only sup- pose, if thy_ had come here and found no one and had. gone away again. On Easter!" When Toni Fitts heard what had happened, she -said that 'someone at headquarters had been inexcusably stupid. Most of the volunteer help wasn't w:Prth the telephone bills they ran up. Still, the situation could have been explained to the sailors and she would have tried to make it up to them some other time. Not, she admitted kindly, that she didn't appreciate the generosity of her neighbors. She added that she only wished she could count on them for steady, concerted effort. Until Ned Peppercorn had retired from fifty-four years' service as door- man add confidential messenger for one of the city's oldest wholesale firms, he and his wife had lived in old houses, lacking almost every con. venience, but with one attraction, that et cheap rent. When, at seventy, the old man had automatically retired, he found himself with a small pension, a modest savings account and a great longing for hot cunning water and no duties connected with stoves or coal. Old Mr. Peppercarn and his wife liked to 'have dinner at noon. The Monday he and Doggie arrived fully twenty minutes ahead of, schedule, old Mrs. Peppercorn was mildly alarmed. "I'm early, Mothet." He Caine out into the kitchen where she Was staring thickening for the gravy and kissed her. "But you and me, we got our afternoon cut out for its. Tien Was telling me about a family !n l,em. As the Thanes turned to the door, arah mentioned the sailers who vere to be guegts of the Filises. Are they likely to turn up; do you h'nk, before Mrs. Fitts and her hu'. and are home from church? Shrl: eave a note for them to wait here, in he hall?" "Oh --why, they're not coming!" an -dace said. "Not coming?" "Andy met Mr. Fitts w,hen he went ut to get the papers this morning. e said Mrs. Fitts had called the din- er off- last night. They're going to reception for some English officers given by the Daughters of the Br'tish Empire this afternoon." AsoMr. Fitts ad mitered the program to Andy, Candace continued, he and his wife Quid d'ne in one of the downtowa estaurants after church and then go n to the reception, held in a fash- nable suburban woman's club "I'm not sure, ,,but I think the British Am- assador is to be there. Or else it's he. daughter of an earl, or .some- ing," Andrew Thane said levelly, "Is Mrs. itts :an Englishwoman?" "She was born," Sarah answered, in Kansas City, of pioneer Stock." If it had not been for anxiety about ic fate of the roast they had en- usted to their thermestat-controlled ren, the Thanes might 'Irau walked II sundown. ' As it was, they return - home about two o'clock in a warm Low from the brisk exercise and with petites -that discounted their extra arty breakfast. Candace. had not moved her jacket when their door eli buzzed. bet that drugstore guy is bring: g the 10e cream, after I told him anted to call for it." Andy in the Itchen was filling the tea -kettle. Candace opened the door. Four rious tanned faces confronted her, ur pairs of anxious eyes met hers. 11 were in sailor unifOrms.- "Er - [las, las, would you know where a lady riled Mrs. Fitts is?" The tallest of e group, a weather-beaten man per- pin his early thirties, swung his p nervously in one hand. "She ked us to dinner, but we've rung ✓ bell and -She didn't answer. No- dy answered." • The man behind him muttered, Maybe e dide't, get the right bell." "They told us at headqUartera it ,; • 'be found la hi'g junk yard." "His junk yard?" Anninfortunate family had been ioted and had moved in under, sheltering lees or the piles of r metal in Hen's yard, old Pepper explained. "When he found 'em, five kids were asleep, on old auto bile seats. There's eight altogeth five children, their ma and pa and orphan they just sort,of adopted. "They on relief?"! ° The outcasts had not lived in set the year required 'to make th eligible for relief, old gr. Pepperc said. "We got to hustle around. them, Mother. i thoughtnrs.ybe yo speak to Mrs. Fitts." She colic clothes for children., don't she? 'thought maybe- you'd ask her something these kids Can wear." "Well, you sit down and begin y dinner, Father, and run down a see Mrs. Fitts. But don't pin 7!) the usty porn the mo- er- an Gar - em orn for u'd cts' I for OUT nd ur 04:tO044404 „ 00gt-PP,,. Tot 04,44. :Orp§§4* top 1d acid q'.414* bop*. loiodu,91. Tha clothinz.reoehvd, with the eaderatandiag OWj.'w44. to ge abroad, cloth WaS riPped• apart, waShed- and made Into gar; meats, 'right ixi the wOrltrOOMS, She, said, "$el, I couldn't ask those Wu - men to suspend their work, or divert it. They're enrolled for a cane and they're entitled to feel that they're working toward their goal." "What did she say?" asked old Mr. Peppercorn, when his wife returned to the apartment. The old lady's round face fleshed. "Mrs. Fitts thinks they're a drop in the bucket." "The person you should have tack- led," said old Mr. Peppercorn, serene- ly ignoring the fact that he had sug- gested the appeal to Mrs. Fitts, "is Sarah' Daffodil." Sarah, despite her fondness for slacks, possessed a not inconsiderable wardrobe of dresses, and skirts, cos- tumes saved over a period of years and hopelessly out of style. The ma- terials were good, the old-fashioned modes utilized yards of fabric and, like everything belonging to Sarah, were in excellent condition and spot- lessly clean. She offered Mrs. Pep- percorn, a free selection. Presently old Mrs. Peppercorn ai '#91, gl4,901-004P0.4,,e Pa#44.0 .444 Sar *1 0400 7#0,14i)dth 44 PeNkr0,914.tQ ateb jz4.0314k swpaper.a4t4 tgrititog •rot:ens, eq -n.443,014 for., the icktelleli!, Sea and his Junk wagon «id the q10 -Y7 (Continued Next Week) ," Save All Fats Homes in the towns, villages and the country for 'almost a year have been responding wholeheartedly to the Government's concerted drive for sal- vage of waste fats and bones. 'Some time ago farmers who 'kill animals for"their own use were asked. to save all was, ie fats and bones. These are being disposed of through meat markets and local salvage ag- encies'qn nearby towns. Farm housewives, following their husbands' examples, are seeing to it that household fats are taken to lo- cal meat dealers When they go to town to do the weeklyshopping. Home soap making has always been one of the rural housewife's, jobs, 'but this job is "out" for the duration since the by-products of fat are so aritalqg w4vOolvatrip`00,?•,:-.: It 00144 be re(40 not kept in a celd:pire stale an44Prua-Vealry. ly Means the ni)140,11g.2P to the effect of bacteria an,41018' Normally fat' contain abent cent glycerine, When 'they. lowed to become rancjd, the. glyeer 'content sometime drops as ROW as''. five per cent. Allowitig water to po., come mixed with feta also aSsists, , deterioration. 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