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o4i. • E•. A, • M.cliii S ERj M.B.
Graduate of UniveriltY pf Toronto••.,
The Clinic is •fully eantpped• with,
eoaiplete ' a>4tc) mo4ert4 X-ray" and other',
up-to-date diagnostic and •therapeuticg
equipmeaiit. • -
Dr. F. 3. R Arorster, -Specialist in
diseases of the eer, eye., nose and
thteopt, 'wiIli be at the Clinic the first
Tttee1tay in every month from 3 to -5•
, .
Flee Well -Baby Clinic will be held
on' the second and last Thursday in
every rntonth from, l to 2 p.m.
JOHN A. GOR;WILF-BA, M.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. O. 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-
anel and Aural: Institute, Moorefieid's
Eye and ¢olden Square 'Throat Hos-
pital, Londoh, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, SEAF'ORTI'i, THIit1S WED-
NESDAY in each moflth, from 2 p.m.
o 440 p.m.; also at Seatorth Clinic
Mrst Tuesday. of each month. 53
Waterloo Street South, • Stratford. k
AUCTIONEERS
., .HAROL.D JACKSON
Specialist in Farm and Household
Sales. -
Licensed in Huron and Perth Colza;
tikes. Prises reasonable; satisfaction
guaranteed.
For information; ete., write or phone
HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea -
forth; R.R. 4,. Seaforth.
W., S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD
If yon want to realize greater re-
turn$ from your auction sales of live
stock and farm equipment, askthose
who know and have heard me. Fif-
teen years' experience. Sale's con-
' ducted anywhere. For sale dates,
.' Phone 28-7, Granton, at my expense: -
897941f
LONDON and CLINTON
NORTH
A.M.
London, L -r ........7 ....... 9.00
Exeter , .17
Hensall 10.34
Kippen° . 10.43
Brucefield 10.55
Clinton, Ar. 11.20
SOUTH
Clinton, Ly.
Brucefield
ICippen
' IRensall
Exeter
London, Ar.
P.M.
3.10
3.32
3.44
3.53
4.10
5.25
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
•Goderich
HolmenviTle
Clinton
Seaforth
St Columban
, Dublin •
Mitchell
WEST
Mitchell 11.27, 10.33
Dublin 11.37 .10.44
St. Columban • ' 11.40
Seaforth 11.51 10.56
Clinton 12.04 11.10
Goderieb 12.35 11.35
A,M.
6.15
6.31
6.43
6.69
7.05
7.12
7.25
P.M.
2.30
2.50
3.13
3.21
t 3.27
3.35
3.47
• C.P.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
Goderich
Meneset
MeGaw
Anberrt'
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
Toronto
P.M.
- 4.36
4.40
4.49
'-4458
5,09
5.21
5,.32
9.45
WEST
A.M.
8:20
P.M.
McNaught 12.04
• Walton 12.15
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Ueda* „, • e • • • l •
One ninetee and •stiff;
a Breast ff* oib;11ae 1444. It•>tt
Pfelt(1r •tr-she knew .a gre ;.,' sal
of ..the wo ld, Mite could judge tchar-
acted, , ands takiatg' tare', pi< Ill' er's
'' .: 1R its .. ai • , , .tPed a l" d
�llfi' R€1 a�.. 11�. F'hlld 14.e. R �a «,
Jibe, Mostt.': young'- emnm of nineteen
sh, . mew' . that if mar>R?ia$e off07,0d, no
more t0her than" it had offered to
her ar ents a did- not war to
R alis d u.
{marry. Of course they hadn't 'guar,
;relied or anything, but they lived; such
`dull lives, and there were always
money worries-and''evterything.
Reth had never ,told, her mother
any of these •things, especially'.: after
her father died and her motherhad.
cried so much and had seemed.tofeel"
even worse than. Ruth did, for Ruth
had felt badly. She had. been, awful-.
ly fond of her father, really fender
of him than of her mother. • 1Ie un-
derstood her better and it was he
who had: encouraged her to study art.
That was one of the things ,that
set her apart from other girls; in
Indianapolis:' She was an art student.
One day she would do great things,
sheknew.
ti
When she was' "a very little girt she
had intended to write. She decided
this because nothing gave her so
much -pleasure as "reading, not the
sort of books that delight the hours
of the average .childhood, but ,'rooks
which; had her mother ever taken
the trouble to look atthem, would
have made her rather concerned for
the future of the small reader. • But
Mrs. Mayfield never troubled to look.
The books all' came from the Indian-
apolis 'public library, so they 'roust
be all right.. They were fairy tales
ata first and later mythology. The
ythology of the Greeks' and Romans
which somehow never 'stepped out of
the marble for her; and the intense=
ly human mythology of . the Iceland-
ers and of the Celts which she liked
better, - and later the mythology ,.of
India which fascinated her most of
all because it had apparently neither
beginning nor end. While her mother
and her mother's friends were dab-
bling in Christian Science and "New-
Thought"
NewThought" she was lost in the myster-
ies of the tranainigration of souls.
Perhaps it was alt this delving into
thepast that.gavee.. to her wide brown
eyes what is called the spirituelle
look -a look decidedly contradicted by
her sturdy body; perhaps, too, it was -
•
extensive reading that finally decid-
ed her. not to try towrite, but" to
express h"erself , in painting, a med-
ium through which she could depict
emotions and dramas rather than
ideas and facts. -
• There came to her at the age of
fourteen a • development" which, while
it increased her fath- in things super-
normal and for a while fascinated her
into a deeped delving into the relig-
ions of the East, had the final effect
.of ,frightening • her away from things
of the mind and turning her activi-
ties into more beautiful channeds.
She had read of the objectification of
ideas and the materialization "'of
thoughts .and wanted to try to do
these things herself, without quite
knowing what exercise she should
make of her knowledge even though
it came to her. Like many people of
a spiritual yet intense nature, of her
five senses the sense of smell was
the keenest. . She liked flowers for
their odour more, than for colour or.
form. One winter day when she had
,returnedhome from school and,was
sitting alone with her booksooking
out at the snow -laden trees .instead
of studying --she thought of spring.
and violets; she was tired of winter,
eager, for the spring -to 'come again,
and, she tried to see violets, to catch
their scent and their, colour. She
closed her eyes and shut out the win-
terroom and the frost -rimmed wiia-
d•ow-all around her in great warm
waves of fragrance rose the odour of
violets - exquisite English violets
with the freshness of the .woods in
them. She took deep breaths. keep-
irig her eyes 'closed lest the Miracle
should fade. Then when.: she (had
quite satisfied herself that she really
.did smell violets she opened her
eyes. All about her on the floor, on
the table, covering her,schoolbdoks,
they lay, great heaps of .odorous pur-
ple blossoms mingled with rich green
leaves. With a little Cry of pleasure
and amazement she stretdited out her
hands to gather 'chem in and they
were gone: Th room was- ' as it hard
been before, but the odour was not
gone. For any minutes the frag-
rance- of ''violets filled her nostrils.
She• was afraid to, close her ,eyes
again to bring back the vision, but
the following day she tried again, and(
many times afterward. She tried dif-
ferent flowers, carnations and •Crin-•
ese lilies. She could not always see
the ;flowers, but she seld,bm, .failxd
With the .odour. The game fascinat-
ed her so at s"h spent every Mean -
Ott khat' she eouid dad alone In ma-
tl t3tltitiing floilf p9. `J~:h'eii cable'• to
her tlae .:desire to' .take the x ext step
--to make other peopl/ realize her
►ower;_-"Rer-motherrbeing -the-leaak.
' ag+inative person sheo knew
as• the one most conveniently nears
'she decided( to try with •her, It was,
one evening when •iter.' father was not
at honie. H r m4it1e
r wesu
S
e1„
broiderg-ona thase never
to be
finished articles`. of no conceivable
'use,'Which occupy, the hands of w.o-
hien who have no active :interest in
• life. Ruth was Pretending to read
;She dared :not shuther eyes lest her
mother should observe. But she bent
unseeing eyes over her book and con-
eentrated on the inner vision of the
wyitic-sliflt ting outt everything ea
sept the thought of violets. They were
her tnot'her's favourite "flower: Per
niaily seconds after she "herself was
surrounded by the odour of violets
and could see there . on her book, per
mot'her did not speak. Then she;
looked up ridtlessly from her em
broidery. •
;•'Have_ .Yen. -been using "perfume,
Riith?: you know I don't approve of
young girls-"
"No, Mother, I haven't. I haven't
any to use."
"I smell Perfume-viaiet ipeptume
-It's more like real' violets than just
perfume -don't you notice 'it? The
whole, room is heavy with it."
,She' dropped her embroidery and
moved about the; roonl as if hunting
fo 'the:flowers though she knew there
were none there.
"It ,must have :been my imagination
-it'a gone now. Strange, I was sure,
I•smelt .,violets. I must 'ask Doctor
Gorton about it. It may be a danger-
ous symptom."
Ruth did not :speak. She was • ra-
ther ashamed and not a little fright-
ened. There was nothing of the mis-
chievous' about her. She did not want
to play tr-ibks. She 'had just wanted
to test her` power, but ,this was the
last time that she consciously tried
to use it. For some time the illu-
sion of flowers persisted whenever
ahe thought of them, but she tried
not to• think of them and before many
months- the experiment was a thing
of the past. It persisted in Ruth on-
ly in a deep-rooted faith in the ,;power
of mind, and in the truth of many
things that the' average person con
sidered superstition:' When she heard
of deaths and births. andmarriages-
of` good luck and bad luck -of coinci-
dences and accidents, it. seemed to
her that behind. the ,obvious°a.nd ac-
cepted.causes of all these things she
could trace an inner, and spiritual rea-
son -the working forces' that lahgh-
ed atthe clumsy working of,imaterial
machinery. Yet she no longer delv-
ed.. ,For a while she actually made a
conscious effort to look at iife in the
ordinary way. She was helped, in
this by the death of her father, which
placed. her in a position of respohsi-
bility toward her invalid mother, and
made her life too full of reality to
leave much room for the occult and.
supernatural.
She hadn't realized• quite how much
she had loved, her mother until she
died. Mother had been old-fashioned
and .fussy, but then all invalids were
fussy, and she had been a dear. about
letting her go on with her studies af-
ter Father •died, even though .she
wouldn't move to Chicago as Ruth
wished. They could have lived as
cheaply in Chicago and Ruth could
have gone to the art institute there,
but Mother wouldn't consent t� the
move. She wanted to stay near her
friends.ilutb,, couldn't understand
that. Hero Mother's frier[•ds were all
.such ordinary people. Kind-hearted,
but quite hopelessly ordinary. It wad
curious that her mother's death had
realized for her one of „Jh.er • most
cherished dreams. Mother knew that
she w s going to die. The doctors
°had. tld-• her so, and she had told
Ruth. It rna•de Ruth cry, but her
mother didn't shed any tears. `That
was why Ruth did. • If her mother had
cried Ruth would have been more
controlled, but her mother fras so un-
naturally calm,
"When I am gone I want you to
go to your father's •sister, Gloria May-
field. I hate to send you there, but
there's no one else of your blood, and
you're too young to live alone. Gloria
has retired frons the, -stage and they'
say she is quite respectable now, rand
besides you won't, be dependent on
her. 'Now that there will be no 'more
doctors' bills to pay, thele will be
enough money for you to live on,
more than any young girl ought to
have in her own hands: it is all in
trust and you will have just the in-
come until you -are twenty-one," Ruth
made- no coniment to this.. Having
hhndled her mother's. •business •aff'aira!
she knew that 'her ineaifte would be
very Wall indeed, but • she and her
bother Mi, different. ideas' as to how
:m'uelt a young gii'ri should spend. "Of
course 1 eicpect ycl'n to pap year airily
'With ytnie wait Iter mother *rent bit:
d tiltt .Yfjt16 -muga lure w t vomoe Ater
•
swere4 al
"Where.' l! r
Mother?" :fake*
,the fact that 1' another would di ff
i,k, r.
soon without maid., an etr,rt to . 'e, r:
„ p•
spade either ,; o self or her` moth r"
that ;there was an','`hope that the doe
tors might'fie mistaken. She d
known do ' . r ir, ee
��� i$at her. } mpther
,would not live; long. Doctors,
Thought, Christian. Science, * nisei
,Theosophy .had a1I°`been appealed 'to
without 'heaing a'h' appreciable efa.
feet oh her iiiii0er's health. Ruth be=
,ing perfectly • healt!ly was inclined to
havefaith in.the 'New Thought. She
'disliked the Seieode because of the
word` Christian', 'buil; was, inclined to
believe that any one of these ntimer-
•ous things might haye helped if us-
ed alone. When her father had died
rat, it had seemed ;unreal -'impossible
aInaost, for Rrtitlt and her father` -had
always enpecte'd her mother to go
dirst, 'though neither of them would
have, put such a thought into words.
It was just an unspoken underaitand-
ing between them.
"In New York," Mrs. Mayfield had
answered; and Ruth was ashamed
that her Prat`thought on hearing this
amazing news was that in New York,
she could study in the 'best American
art schools.
"How old is she?" asked. Ruth. She
had been a bit troubled by her
mother's wards about an older wo-
man. Ruth had po desire to go to
New York tobe-controlled. by some.
elderly female relative.
'i don't know. ' I never saw her.
In her younger days she was abroad
a great deal, and then I never cared
to meet her. She was younger than
your father, quite a lot younger, hut
she must have reached years of dis-
cretion by this time. I hope so for
your 'sake. Perhaps I'm not doing the
right thing -by telling you to go to.
her, but after ail she is your father's
sisterand' will be your only relative
after I am gone."
"Have you written•. to her -do you
want, me to write?"
"No. I didn't write to her before
and I can't (start now. You 'will • go -
to her after,,I'm gone`tai your father's
daughter. Your claim on her is
through him, not me. You can write
to her yourself as•soon-as soon as
you know. Her address is in that
little red book on the desk -at least
that was her address five years ago,
when your poor father died. " She
didn'•t come to the funeral, though she
did write to me, and • she •;ma -P have
arov+eci since. She probably has. I
think on the *}Thole you'd better write
now so that the letter will have time
to follow hen!'.
Ruth did write and :her aunt had
not moved, for • by- a curious :inci-
dence Aunt Glora's answer came on
the very day that her mother died.
At the time, concerned With her grief
Ruth didn't read the Ietter very care-
fully, but 'afterward-after''th'e. funer-
al; and after all the innumerable de-
tails had been settled, she went back
to it, and read it again. ° She didn't
know exactly what to think of it. It
filled her with doubts; Almost she
persuaded herself to disregard her
mother's wish and n'et go to Aunt
Gloria at all, but she had already toldy
all her mother's kind friends that
that was what s.be would do: I•t gaYe
her a logical excuse for refusing all
of the offers of the • well-meaning wo-
ur fa
e
le "fact- that Gloria
,ather''s ,slater 444.
s.
.ant Gld
.ria live,
th.
She acceRted,1
the sat er ' Ot11de4ta dlsapk:oliq!tl ly
frliro 4`u ,• T'he '' li tnW lken their
wart'` o'0t iousl as Ac did": "1'he er
was 0000,;i lu
"et147rdear •child. , she haEi wx'lttell,
1 Y
1 0 � t0 lm
Ince W
Yoyk `if yoh ''mctlleir dies ;' But *of'anticipate? ' she'a<1';p r�obably. live
1" d
yearee I:hope OP- To earl ;pope so
sounds aime!et like a leek' of hdapi-
pia. by okR(t1
r
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to a hori:i 'ed
ly'1
business that so
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packed her *aka: ,j
pictures, slid <lo#re
ac I �ltea.till2
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YOUR Liberal Government under Mackenzie
z eke eri
ita�s taken 11 ra gps tom ,than
the war s hll have o. *vide otaen ch c
success of his We,.It can be dimeb7 aging,
opportunity. to get ahead faster and go further;
Iii'rf rtewhat you want -- a Anne. fo maim your own;
way LIti your own. way?
in
Here.. are definite, practical steps which the Liberal • r(
Government has taken (not just talked about; but take')
to make this Canada a better place to work in and bring
up your children. •
You will have to decide whether you wantthe men
who devisedthesemeasures to carry them through," or:',
whether you wish to entrust your own and your family's
future to othetsa
1 Reconstrection
Plans for jobs for 900,000 more .workers than
in 1939; and 60,000 more each year as the
population grows.`Every-kind of enterprise mill
be encouraged. the a Liberal Government has
already set up the machinery: the Department of
Reconstruction.
2 foreign Trade '
Liberal objective: Sixty percent increase in value
•
ower Canada's pre-war export trade. This means
thousands of 'obs, and is based on the number
of jobs created by Canada's normal export trade.
3 Credit few .Enterprise '
I'he liberal Government set • up the Industrial
Development Bank to provide money at „low
interest for long.;; terms to help enterprising
Canadians to develop new business. Another
step towards creating full employment:
4 Exports, Encorraged
War-torn countries will want to buy tremendous
quantities of Canadian goods. To facilitate this,
the Liberal.. Government has set up the Export
Credit Insurance Act to do two things: (1) to
insure Canadian exporters' against loss, and (2)
to make loans to foreign governments under
contract to Canadian exporters.
_
5 Farm Improvement . _a
Loans _
Your Liberal Government • "
ha made 'low interest
loans available to farmers
'to finance their work and,,,
make improvements.
6 Guaranteed Markets
To (provide farmers with a better wartime in-
come, the Liberal Government made contracts
for definite quantities of important products at
agreed:pprices-notably bacon, eggs, cheese and
beef. Fhese contracts have worked out so well
the Liberal Government extended any for
longer periods.
a gaf e.w LMACKQZIEIONG P nijMirjt,r
•
7 Family ,,Allowances
From' July next; Family Allowances are to be paid
mo'ntfly',:to assist parentst n ratssng their eFild• `
ren -$250,000,000 a year ditecrspendin'gpower
h
in the ands oaf people who need it most.
8 New Homes for Canad':1&ons ,
The'`Eiberal Government's new $400,000,000
National Housing Act enables hundreds of
thousands of Canadians to dirriftheirAantliteines.
Ta
the fust yea after Gerhaay's 'defea"t," at. least
50,000 dwellings will be "built.
9 Reputing, Veterans
Gratutiies, benefits and.
grunts of 750,000,000 will
enable men and women of
the Armed Services to appply
their energies in building'
the prosperous Canada for
which your. Liberal 'Gsovens-
ment has been planning. ,
10 Floor Prices ■nder Fish and c nn Products `
• To protect farmers and fishermen and to main•
taia_p rices, the Liberal Government has pro-
vided fioor prices" ifidei'''theiY', rodncis"':P1tds-
perous farmers and fishermen make aprosperous
Catlada.
11 Better Labour Conditions
In co-operation with organized Labour; the
Liberal Government has Confirmed collective
bargaining provided unemployment insurance,
appointed labour representatives on govern -
*rent boards. (More than 600,000 workers;'be-
cause ,. of. the Liberal Government's attitude.
towards Labour and the labour movement; now
•get annual vacations with pay.) . .
It,
Ay;
12 Reduction in Taxation
The Liberal Government will gradually reduce
taxation when the European war is corer to free
spending power and to give Canadians every
opportunity for prosperity, employment and
freedom. .
What you have done in war -you can do in peace. You can do your
°part by supporting the Liberatandidate in your constituency.
BUILD A NEW SOCIAL ORDER
'TE LIBER4
.1.
PUBUSHED BY :THENATIONALLIBERAL COMMITTEE
/seer /1' 7W5 MUM G
1 HOPE YOU KNOW
WHAT TO DO WITH IT
THAT WASN'T
QUITE WHAT
I MEANT
f tdltll{i�I
'THAT MONEY CAN SEND PRICES
t1P...OR KEEP THEM DOWN.
WHICH DO'YOU WANT?
THEN SAVE THOSE
DOLLARS -DON'T
SPEND THEMJ
HOW'S YOUR CONSCIENCE?
Can ` you say you're fighting
inflation? Here's an enemy
r ...that could do unlimited harm
long afterthe last shot Ws
been fired in Europe. Are you
lending •everycent you can
... playing the game fairly?
If you're doing your part, you
are establishing your right to
a place in the post wear wtolat
JOHN IABAt tk