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OS: E. A. McMAikriffkg‘
Asitl :pf,7,101V,crtsity. of Toronto
The Clinic is IfallY Yfith
'cemplete and modern X-tarand ether
'espdtadate .diagnostie,and therapentioe,
eqUipment.
Dr, F. V,OTstei, 'Specialiat:
diseasee of Cihe 'ear, eye, tiOse kind
1111Xeide,efill,he at the Clinic al* first
TOokilat'104, evert Month• from 3 to 5
Frei Wili-Baby will b held
Orethe Neeekind and last • YThursdaY"
•itaratirrniefitliliora 1 to 2"0.m; '
JOHN A.`GORINILL, 614.I. M.D.
• Physician and Surgeon.
/ IN DE. /LH. ROSS' OFFICE
Phones: Office 5-W Res. 6-3.
4 Seaftirth
MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
Physician, and Surgeon
•• Successor to Dr. W. C. •Sproat
rhone SP•W Seaforth
• DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
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• Eye, Ear, Nei. and Throat,
• Graduate in Medicine, 'University of
• Toronto.
• , Late 'assistant New York Opthal-
• *el and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye aad Golden Square Throat Hos-
Iondon, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTE'L, SEAFORTII, THIRD WED-
• NESDAY in each month, from 2"P.ne
to -4.30- pen.; also at Sedforth Clinic
• first •Tuesdayof each Math. • 53
• Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON •
• Specialist in Vann and Household
Sides..
Lie/Sneed in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties, Prices reasonable; satisfactiee,
' ' ..sheaa- atteteilarearagaataas.a.;ra•e ^ ••
. For *formation,* etc., write or phone
" HAROLD:JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea -
forth; Bit. 4, Seaforth. •, 4
EDWARD ELLIOTT
• Licensed Atictioneer For Huron
.Correependence promptly answered.
Immediate arrangements can be Made
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" -Clinton. 1Charges Moderate and satis-
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• -•Mr. Percy C. •Wright Fill accept
auction sales • pertairing :,to farms,
stock, implements- and household et.
teats. PriCes reasonable, with an ex-
perienced assaita•nt. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Phone 90 r 22, Hensall. -
LONDON and`CLINTON
NORTH
• A.M.
• London, Lv. •9.00
Meter.nn,
10.17,
....... . 10.34
Kippen.. .. 10.43
Ifrueefieid
10,55
!Clinton, Ar. • , 11.20
• SOUTH .
Clinton, Lv. ..... 3.10
BrUcefield •3.32
Hippen
• Hensall .
Exeter -
3.44
3.53
4.10
London, Ar. • ' 5.25
SUNDAY ikhiLY
' „Toronto IS Goderlch• ...
(Vie, London and Clinton)
•P.M.
Toronto, Lv. 6.00
• 9.40
Clinton ,.... ..... . 11.55
• ,Gloderich, Ar. • - 12.20
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' C.N.R. TIME TABLE
• EAST
• A.M.
- Goderielt • ' 6.15
• Holmesville • 6.31
Clinton • 6.43
SeafOrth ...... ......'.•6.59
St. Columban 7.05
Dublin .z., 7.12
Mitchell '• 7.25
• . WEST ,
Mitchell -•,. .. 11.27 10.33
Dublin ........ ... 11.37 10.4,4
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3.27
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3.47
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gleireSa*on. -fashion and Stetted to
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aserritar; Raillett,:hecaufte I have tiev-
,erat'thingta !Wore I sail. The
wet ,appartasit, ler to get you to add
d am ffOillgate
Ontae latifid, reCthoutiand pounds, to
Mee; Shabretia".
;•••Fierquhar's• pipe was going well,:
Ile took a drink.
A handsome renew, thoOglit
rigain. Soldierly. NotfCeably taut:
•Might be in command of the GOrtion
• Highlanders. He couldn't say more.,
It was his experience that man of
this type who stood at this hour With
his back to the fireplace With a' glass
of whisky, either laid down the law
on his pet subject or casne out of his
•reserve for once and talked about
himself. • He hoped •Very'• tauCh that
the latter would be the cade And so
he 'made himself comfortable, said
nothiag, and waited.
Farquhar's, ingrained -reticence held
him. 'It 'Was an obvious struggle
that he threw it eft •
"Look here, Willett," he said
abruptly. • "There are one or two
things I, see, that you do not undeia
stand. I'm going to explain them to
You." '
• "You have the whole of my atteee
tion,":, replied Willett, adding, "and
thanks." • • • • '
"About: the inadequaer of this set-
tlement, first. Mrs. Shepreth-refused
to let Me double it. She said that she
wasn't keetrabout ,being fastened
On by the gang of parasites, Who s.eem
to smell the size of a lonely woman's
income. All she would anew me fa
do was Acaenable her to carry on and,
look after her nephew inan unnotice-
able way. Perhaps she' right."
"I think -so," said Willett, "I ani
going. to find a nice little hause for
her. atonce.". •
"Thank .you. I shall be d.: . deeply
obliged' if you will •lciok after her for
me arid keep an .eye on the •boy."
Ile plucked, his sniall moustache in
order to hide the uncontrollable trou-
ble 'round his mouth. , . • '
" "You' can rely on me," said Willett.
"Utterly." • .
There Weis a moment's., sitance data
:ittgaallialatheiaelloaasiat 4,Ethp-tratee.
astery on top' of the the Badia
di Fiesole, tolled the hoilie It had
done ee for -nine hundred years above
the wrecks of time. •
"You looked et eptieal this, Morning
whert I 'qaoted Marcus ;Aurelius. Why
was ,that?"
: So' •difect. A made Wffiett
rather peinfully uncomfortable. He
shifted hie' feet about.• •
"Aren't you tote Yoang and, well. to
think about death?" •
"I'M not thinking about it. The
point is that it's begun to think about'
me. I'm it the veteran class, worse
luck."
"Technically, yes. Actually, by no
means. You don't look a day over
forty-five, if I. may say•raoa't
"You may," said Farquhar, with ,a
smite in biz eyes. "Then you're un -
dee thee-ampeession, like eveiybody
else round. here, that I'm a 'callous
brute •who's desertihg Mrs. Shepreth."
• "No, nort- said Willett emphatical-
a
He had seen the -embrace at the
door �f the room. There was the Set-
tlement, too, and now the codicil.
"It would be my fault if you were..
I've•never let you into'anythiag about
'myself. •during -all the yeare "that
yolave been.doing things for •me. ' I'm
a bit- of a clam, I'm afraid."• '
"Pm not familiar with the cbarace
teristica-of the clam, but if it had
even a small pereentage of your kind-
ness and generosity it must be an
estimable bird."
"Familiar burst out, laughing. It
Wad the first time that he had laugh-
ed for over a week. It was ;better
then a tonic -better 'even than whis-
ky. • •
las-sa""e
40wwit.. Otis ***.le
5s1giir:et ha xarIxgThben'alelttotialsy
revOhitionat7 `iiiletTobe:',;She area
.0tYl'u aMetlahle girt %thbilg11.,
ae•S'••'..ae seeks
014ralling; adoring :Ilierntitiler
ad devoted to me. -An Ye0
Much :to our 'delight; eheghadluat be.;,
'Omne :engage to
an 'eligible and rsieeelleat2,Yonife, ifple
--WitintravehitlehioetcaletilitY 4004'
Ieetedior the, ptirp0.40.,' • liet 44;Tioite.
• athet!the Only' ini,Portentetilialt :that%
left to' both a us,e,e/VeAverlefaltlt/iti
More deliglatedeamPePlievedebebaue0
;she Ivrea lialloveaWatIC Nottilicti 'and
swanr:obsessed hylier." * • ,
• , •
,
"TAO daY,,,,AL,EPTA 1St for You I
had a notetecineray'w1 e;: --one Of her
PoeftS091 Yr4t-sr-Ae,itc.rft*.v*Ig4.Phe
144d ad.40.• a OatoPillici NYAkf ;AUX
:•tieually 'serhius pena She wrote thet
;eau had lately -beenadaiag -eaery-
Altingehe aphid to,,•dodgi
hip, Who wasefrightiallY,tanret. Solar
'as Ootattl be seep: there Was no other
man on; the Mat, but Jean's desire to
sive. thearboy the slip had been .twig -
geed by everyone. 'When I pinned her
,idewa last night,„ or rather at tour
'9"!Plock this• Morning -we happened
to meet on the steps' -I know thege
wer,t1S by lieert-she laughed • and
said, "01,1, Mumsey, let me try -my
Wings.'"
"What did she Mean?" asked Wil-
lett, the bewilderediAbechelor.
.."Damoed if I know," said Farquhar,
the , equally bewildered parent. "But
the last line ot my wife% ebviously
worried noStscript was 'I'm sorry,,
but I think You're needed at home."
• Willett searched his legal brain for
motives- •
!, "Don't you think that your daegth-
terke momentary change of Mead may
be due to the fact /that the young
Man has beea taking her too.much
for granted?"
"I did -for twenty-four hours. 'Bat
the letter was hallowed' by a cable.
•It.blew up that idea; 'jean,' it said,
'hes broken the engagement arid , re-
luCeri to eitplain.'" ,
said Willett... "The microbe
had attacked her, you. thiiik?''
Farquhar threw lin his hand.
• Thena he left the fireplace and "be-'
ganto Wilk up and down. There were
al:tail:ma lines on. his face. He ittoked
everar day of his fifty-five Year* jest
. ,
• V
„,
When he spoke again, he .ealcie
"Willett, I've •began: to be hideoilily
afraid that father ;and imothers are
bolted to bear the resultesaad their
exaMple.", ...
• "I'm afraid they are," said Willett.
•."That being So it seems to me that
lean fuhlin marriage •and his chucked
• young Nerthrap, as she would 'have
thucked any other man, because my
wife and I have made it a rather tra-
gic thing." ^
"Elastic -but not tragic. That is,
so far as I've surmised." • . . •
"Tragic to a youag and romantic
girl, with a good memory and. a pret-
ty keen observation."
"Oh," said Willett. "Why?"
• "Because I don't 'suppose that Jean
has seen her. mother and me under.
the same root for more than a month
at a timesince she's been old enough
to observe."
"If it isn't an impertinent question,
,didn't you - didn't you love your
Wife?" •
"No," said Farqrar, "and she
didn't give a curse for me."
Willett had early Victorian views(
on the subject of marriage and wasn't
even an amateur • at the game. His
exclamation •ra:ther natilrally sounded
like "Good God!"
"It was a marriage of money, not
love. The heads of two grotesquely
rich tamilies conceived the not unus-
ual idea of a human cona.bination.
Those were the slays when members
of the younger generatiott could be
coerced, if you remember. She was
twenty and I was tweatasnine. I don't
knqw•whether sherawas in love with
aonieone else. I .didn't ask her. I was
frightfully gone on an opera singer
who had introduced me telife. But
we Carried out orders and went off
on • a difficult honeymoon to the joy-
ful clang of, bell& . . . Jean was the
fruit of this ready-made union, the
lonely blossom" - oe. the Farquirarde
Winton tree. All four grandparents
were alive to celebrate the • arrival.
. "Raving to 'be geed,'" he said, "go- It Served them, damn well right it
• ing back to that, means having to wasn't a boy."
chuck self-indulgence. 'Retiring front "Um," said Willett "Dear me."
the game, in 'faCt, and watching oth- "Since then, diametrically opposed,
ers Play. Age being pushed off the in eyarY. mortal thing, we've done
court by youth. That's" what it comes what everybody tries to do and
to. I have a daughter, you see, Whose doesn't. We've lived our own lives,
name's upon the„ board." I mean. I've had my affairs and she's
know," said Willett, "But, dear had hers: The only' discussion we
me, is She -old enough \for. that?" , ever hall on these matters ended in
"Eighteen. The age when the inod- an agreement that .they ehould be
ern girl seizea life by the throat. Hay- condUcted with the utmoat aircum-
ing no son our hopes of the future spection. Both of us headed news -
are entirely in her hands: She's the papers and turned in horror &dm
apple of her mother% eye and mine." zeandal. We have put in a mutual
"Of eburee," said Willett. • appearance at our houses In New
"Ifs by any chance, and the odds, -York,•London and Paris, and the var-
are, on it, she should follow the ex- bus -Country places in America and
ample of theyoling enarehists of to- England that we have taken from
day and 'I Shourd try to Paill her up, time to time. An ideal Mismarriage,
don't want her to be able to put acOording to both of Us."
her fingerto her nose and say: Willett made a noise With. his
'What Price you, old bird.'" . tongue. , ,
"Quite," rigid Willett, gravely. ,"But," he ventured to eel", after a
"Well, that's the other reason for careful 'pause, "has neither of you
ray reluctant, retireMent / hope to ever wanted to be married toSome-
Gerd I'm In timer - one, elee?"
W-illett.,:coelted his head. 'lets therh" It leoked tor a moment as though
a doiibt?' be asked; ; • rartpihat Intended to leave that clues-
• "Yes. Theta; velty I'M sa11ng4-eu tion utiansWered, It entailed too inti-
Sattirtiey. • If anyone had an airship iia,t a cenfidence, Then he went
•ready to go I'd buy the thing and beak to -the firephied and stood With
knock twe 'daYti eff the erreesing.' hit legs apart, .,aw expression Was
""Tlien yOleVe had badheft'?" , iteat of la Man Wha had forced MIA-
• "frail carafe fa aCe it Idatt emingh gi
Self telt of hie olf-itid Wee there-
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to Make tree *Olt at three thanleatat titre °Pen to itieetnition. -
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then: had been taid"ati ,
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aied'aceoes the11g garden to the
gate. There it'wedliiaded on a. mote
truck toebe talten.depa the hitt bite
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beenthroWn-ineide-mit on the iiofa. ltiaughter Vatted Inielieelaal!falaira.atew
Ifireoliailia 'tonal a-Palier whiehliad -frame-elf aniudtelitaleird
been :treated be Bach a fashion. It beconie,theniecareatatinthonghtleatfe
eeeeleiyed him:. It area •eosinteraally .aa he imagined Ife-aheiwa*•'AitatvgiMa
sleek- .1. ateur father, his daaghterehadbecense.
, The stanta of a cigarette, still burn- infected with the"Onarchical microbes:,
hag, sent zp a thili'hlite spiral frotti which, accordingato e,aetair.thillff that
,an ash•tray:of rare Marblehe had, seen and reaff,',Ififf'ffiadeaVie
"She has been down," he said to pest:veer- youth'indifterOnf'i4
There is no line,. flippant towards, the Old rules of
reason why Helen shaald have wait- life, • and. boiod: 'oigg w1th.,w140•40,ey
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1•,"DOlftwe abaiLeliandsi7" she4s
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Whereqkg.7453,?"' .
a "Then youadidalts get nly,,Olert'''‘..
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,Risetarst, *bckd ile 4eItf
that ence-in'i hoildtalr4A, •
War •Idefore:itaking aat.;.a.ttitei,.,
it to,:qpiON-IJAV;
•• "Yeti," 4bfe,elaido'uti) flig40)Cia":'
• "But I wasn't °UAW ii4jeation •
entiotional eountry: They were attend. Ota Way to ring the beli to make what he contd -sympathetically; to
• ", my ,. IA gaid,
"I'm spriGoat but I've ad itiany things,'
iug the funeral of Past, their be- impatient iaquiries, a tall Man, wear- deal with her%cate at mice- Alter to renferaber." • ' •
truak effer trunk .10* dramatized in- tt4 see.Mei, but 'surely Jean might c.alled the di3eYtind all things to do valeearY VictotiO,PriaciPles "Are Iiitt sere Of that?" ,. • •; _
• he wanted
•
to a coffin by ilieltera actors of 'that have stayed." •
loved dead.
With childish •vriffniness they gave over tim ba,ck of a sofa an, Which'he nights he had decided to treat this "I told, You that •Jean 'had• Sailed."
He was. * e panic. ,
"Sailed? When; and on what?"
He alaitiet kliouted these words, ."•
"On Saturday: On the Olympic; .
You must have crossed -her at sea." "••••
ed by the women ,sereants. And when swung. round on his heel. , orderly way, he had pursfied all his • . .' •
•
aContininid Next Week) - •
at the last momenta Farquhar came • Who the dickens was this person.? life. Re had come to the Conclusion -
dewrelialeatnaderith a set jaw, they He saw a large stringless eye.glass, that be must put himself on her level
It* 'a:Whim/dee/ amilie, 'poked his.head deep thought , -and" litany sleePless • "What did you say?"
a display of their naltie exhibitionist was lying full stretch. • girl met in the way of a Parent, or
complex in a mannera'iliat was fright, "If I can do niiithing, command as a blotter, but as 'an ex Bolshevik
fully disconcerting. They ranged Pe," he said, and . gathered himself He might be able, perhaps, to point
themselves in a melancholy body on. to his. feet ,• • out the utter fallacy of.the now flush -
the terrace and 'there were reinter°. It was a new voice to Farquhar. He ionable habit which, in his I Perfectly
burst into a so t Of operatic finale and a long end narrow face, a Wel-' and definitely eschew all moral antag-
of grief and farevielilingtonian nose, and a mass of thick *plants. !A very difficult proce.ss. •
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• Willett' broke into a sympathetic 'black hair, heavily streaked with He went up to his wife!e -quarters.; Plasticti Go 0
rash of gooseflesh; 0,nd hurried away. white. The voice was high, and clear, knocked at the deor Of her. boudoir •
He turned eat..thegate to wait for and merrY, anti its owner an instant and was faced by e very smart maid. "
Farquhar, and at one of the upper lY likeable person, tall, graceful; "Ask Mrs. Farcarhar if 'she will see • Active •Air Duty
windows of., the VIRS caught sight of
a face that had bee:tete blurred and
distorted by tears.'
Not a word was said in the Car.
Without once looking back Farqu-
har sat with hiseyee shut, erect and
rigid. His hands gripped his knees.
Finally; voicing his thoughts aloud as
though he were alone;he said: "DoWn
the hill . 'down the hill. Compen-
sations? In death eventually, I sup-
pose. Meantime if one's young? I
wonder."
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' PART It
Two days out from New Yofit Far-
quhar sent e wireleres,from the .Aqui-
tania to his valet in.Park Avenue. He
gave him eiders to be -on the dock at
the moment of the•whIPIrarriver and
to see that one of his netnerous cars
was there to take him aWaY. Nothing
except life-long imprisonment could
force him to undergo the annoyance
and irritation 4gf the Customs exam-
piniaactieon in that dark and draughty
It was one of Farquhar's, immense-
ly pleasant 'foibles ,t� retain the ser -
Vents whom he 'had carefully choen
whether 'they were needed Or hot.
While he was away for menthe at a
time in various 'parts of the world
these people had nothing to da, The
ones that be used in New York stay-
ed in New York, the ones who attend-
ed him in London rethieit' ied in Lon-
don, And so on in Paris and else-
where. He pursued preeistly the same
plan in regard to clothes, so that he
could walk iato any one oehis num-
eront houses- and find Complete and
separate wardrobes. He took with
him from place to place the clothes
that he needed for immediate use, and
the rest of his luggage was filled with
his ever-growing collection of printe,
miniatures, china, old coins and first
editions. He was a well-known 'col-
lector of them all.
,When he had- talked about compen-
sations; hadn't he perhaps overloek.
ed the Comfort of money./
He drove to the door of has house
with simply a stick in his hand. He
never bothered about -a latchkey.
What was the ;Use of a bell? He had
'built the house himself and was ra-
ther pleased with it. Three years be-
fore it wasconsidered-4.o be some-
what too far ,uptown, and, at that
time, it was surreunded 47:numorous
llttie shops. It' was, in iamb, in the
centre of those slum -like brown stone
houses Of which New York had been
almost wholly composed befcrre it
had become a city forced togrow up-
wards in erder that' it might endeavor
Io give shelter to its eveiainereasing.
,PoPillation. It now found itself 'dwarf-
ed between two enormous 'apartment
hotiSe, • for the box -like rooms
Which, standardized like eirerYthing
else, people' Paid fantastie Prices and
ceuldn't siving a cat. It 'wee an old
house now, according to that city of
unbelievable transitions. Modelled on
the one of the Due de Berey„in. Paris,
it had diatinetion, of •Ctouree,, and the
recent outburst qt, soft 'deal smoke,
which had given a new coMpleximi to
New York, had made, it look as
though it had been baiWat Nast six
yearsi
raquher turned at tb.e door Of the
feeaunH
car to saehad
to
y hafewwrgoorttenthhelnn
ti.i te ehaatif;
• face entirely, but he reViembeyed his
narna, he found.
He said: "I.Tow's your Wife, 1.1eary ?"'
,"Pine," said Leary, flattered.
"And how's your boll ie he still
In the Same job?"
The man shook his head atid hunch-
ed up his shonldete.
he'S been in three Made yea
got him that one! That( deal, teamee,
• Merit today, these yolingtideViba. All
they Wanna be is milltOttitrea with-
ott,tsdeollnia'
Ileat,,;.kflit ;he did,
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though rather eccentridally dreseed.
For instance, as Farquhar immediate-
ly .noticed, the jacket was the sort of
thing that might have been Worn by
Tom or Jerry at Cremorne, the, collar
wa,s almost Byronic, though starched;
the tis,black satin and made like a
stock; the waistco-at flowered• -and the
trousers mauve and wide.
Farquhar 'asked himself, with a
sense of shock, Where on earth Helen
had Pound this most peculiar creature.
"If you can tell me anything about
my wife or .daughter I shall be grate-
ful," he said dryly.
"Oh; how are you? You're Farqu-
har, then." Tae manlaughed in a
winning Way.; Rather- like an Eton
boy, who had been caught in some-
body's orchard. "If I had been &eked
to describe you I 'should .ltrave -done
so with absolute aecuracy, even to
the Sponge -bag tie." Me • came for-
ward, 'and held out his 'hand.' "I'm
Edmund Gamlingay, generally called
Gamboilingay, which is really rather
'good. How was the crossing over that
frightful waste of waters?" •
"I. didn't notice," said Farquhar,
though not too shortly. 'This 'Man
amused himjust as he -inevitably
:amused everyone: ,He had been born
for 'the purpose. "I wee in ton much
ofea hurry to get here. Where's my
wife, do you know?"
"Yes, I do. She's in bed. I- had.
breakfast .with her about 'an'hour .ago
and read all the disasters from the
Papers and told. her my latest,plot.
She's the only woman I've ever met
who can listen to the plot of a novel
without suggesting ta. new name for
the heroine, e new nationality for the
hero, and an utterly new twist at the•
end of it which ruins the bleated
thing. • We were up Ivery late last
night; subscribing to the New York
idea, We dined at one house, danc-
ed in another, at supper at a. third;
and at two o'clock 'this morning,
charged with electricity and very bad
champagne, went off to a night club,
which -Otis as hot as hell. There we
wobbled like a jelly on an ovetcrowd-
ed, floor final the band. whea .we
hurried away before the men were
carted to Ow Morgue, and came honie
..at five o'clock. An infernally amas-
ing game whioh will make. it .neces-
.
mer he said. • „• • :- ..!,
Canadian pilot 'bails out
- The girl was new to that house • A young
of his plane and parachutes down to
and French. Sae showed no signs of
surprise.
. the friendly, green •eatth • near a
"What is the ti-inie?" she asked. sleepy English. village after. a cram- .
"Farquhar." .
- ble over the Channel. . • .
,
."Ah, Yes! Will you noeplease come The material for that piles. Vara-- :•';
• chute, his life preeerver, had •to he
She was unableto suppress a smile light and compact and yet have great • . • of keen keen amusement. strength and elasticity to withstand
He went in. 'Yet another beautiful the impact • shock • which oceilM'ed' :
room filled With many of the thingk when the ehute opened. This is why.
that he had collected. ale walked up nylon is used in the making of Para-. a
and down while -his name was aia chute canopy cloth, ropes, cords, weib-; -
shrugged rill% slihohie• yl
ul. hinNgaonnp
d threads.,:.these
iese corn, , '. ai
rd
i e
or
uen,
twistedeed. On cheieheshmouth abaled
eyebrows. -
' characterietics to a greater
,syrithetle ater idegree
, ,,
He was kept, waiting for a quartet than any other Mteial ar
, ..•a
e
of 'an hour. 1fibre. It is lighter in weight; more.
'age tlie-sa•mearrakeup forher husbandssetronger-tra'alalk. • " -'''- - - '
Obviously Helen was not going to
. , a
uniform in quatty, and '50aapee
a aint.
as she had used for Gaminglays Fin- Tho 'Aim -e, nylon, is 'given • to a
whole family of materials,. Other raw .1
materials may be used for making
different kb:1413.0f nylons, but for tex•
-
tiles and bristles, it is produced fecen
coal, air and water.
al-ly he heard the well-known, snerrY
voice, clear and girlish, and when the
door opened there stood the woman
to whom he had been married for
half • a life -time, the mother or eis
one we lamb, and an utter stranger
to hiniself. A woman he admired ira-•
mensely, respected, and envied a lit-
tle, but didn't like' hi the least:"
He saw that she had become defin-
itely younger since his last visit. Her
hair had been not merele bobbed but
shingled as short as a boy's. It was
brushed straight •,back and glistened
with some .sort of tonic or brilliantine.
For the first time he saw a most in-
telligent' forehead and a pair of shell-
like ears whicb hitherto, .had been
hidden. Amazingly enough this dras-
tic treatment had not made her look
in the least manly. On the contrary,
it •aided her overwhelming femininity
and gave her a neatness and fresh-
nlief,se.s which took several years off her
•
She • was dressed. He was, of
course, one of -those husbands for
whom a woman covers.
Her frock, which made no impres-
sion 'aeon him eacept that its was
short, was that of a girl. It might
have beea one of his daughter's: She
was as slight as Jean. He noticed,
fta. the 'first time, that the cut of her
face ava,s French. The wide -set eyes
with rather heavy lids and the well-
.
Among its multitudinous uses are
knitted goods, woven dress nteterials,
bathiag. quits, uptiolsterY, 'gloves;
sewing thread, falling lines and lead-
ers, and all types of bristles, Nylon
has also been used with wide acclaim
by surgeons and physicians for sur-
gical sutures. Doctors have found it
to be evexi' and smocrthe making it
less irritating than natural gut to sen-
sitive body tiseuessa. •
At the present- time, aside *anti'
-parachutes, tire cords and to*' ropes ,
for fighting teen, it has been found ,
that soldier's shoe laces made from
this material won't disintegrate with
the moisture •and mildew of the tro-
'pies. Extra fine cloth Spun from
nylon threads can be:used to filter
blood plasma.
After' the war, the Dominion's ten-
nis players will welcome the advent ,
of racquets: strung with sturdy, wn-
ter-repellent nylon that Won't be
ruined if caught in a summer show-
er. Musicians will be using instru-
ments strueg with nylon strings that
won't loosen or eontraca with thong:
Ins atmospheric conditions, and yet
will have the same perfect tone that
can be obtained' frord gat strings.
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