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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-05-18, Page 7• .1[ •J• le. 01 t • 9.••• 1 Hiqo To4iiime I 41* • !`iir14.0.4,4;-'100t4Odo 19BAFORTH Rowan, ris94011,3 Phone 1739rth 1 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC PELE.. A MCMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto The' •Clinic' ls AIRY equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other updtddate ,diagaosUe and therapeutics • egalptnent. Dr. F.-3 R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Cattle the first Tuesday in,,every month from 3 to 5 Free Well -Baby clinic will he held on the Beetled and last Thursday in every month. from 1 to 2 p.m. • • JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. 11. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W Res. 5-J Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Sueeessor to Dr. W. O. Sproat Phone 90-W )(As- 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 and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL 11001%"1., BEAFORTH, THIRD WED- • NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. • to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic •Brat Tuesday of each month. 63 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - forth: R.R. 4, Seaforth. 44. cloo p rtx4$*,11.447.441c,:b4gyxPeVn'atIa4,111.b • 41,i4,et is; cit r mernberP • W. S. DENF1ELD . . If you want to realiZe greater re- turns from your auction sales of live stoat and farm equipment, ask those who know and have heard me. •Fif- ; teen, years' exPerience. Saleeon- ducted anywhere. For sale dates, Phone 28-7, Granton,,,at ray expen-se. 897941 ,. LONDON and CLI,,NTON NORTH • A.M.London, Lv. 9.00 Exeter 10.17 Hensall 10.34 Kippen • 10.43 Brucefield 10.55 Clinton, Ar: 11.20 SOUTH P.M. 3.10 3.32 3.44 Clinton„ Lv Brueefield Kippen Hensel Exeter London, Ar (Ohletd1h1011 freTa last weed). creluoin*,.anxi watt Itid the ter iiiethdes death 'bad 11* #r ii4r310,17„gellt.? 4flYitt':* *48 '60 YO*1K:tilat° -POO certa4toar •already .ahe - -was begimiiti.g. ,t4 re- ebdilt,the entranea hall 844 stairway 4014111L, 4d4rYz4belped to rertdel dr the 'house but the came in wht0h. her spirite. Evelthing• interostedl she felukd he,raelf was as unintereet her, hat her first 13 ght, 'of New York; fig as pessible. n' Was large ,.and disappointed her ,yaguely. If she had high -egged and alnlost eal.P# and known, her disappointment was cam- streamers of loosened and discolored ed only because the cab driver took Wall paper hung from the walls. _It her down Fourth Avenue instead of wan in the rear of the house,The few Firth, and there was- aitue to ipterest essential pieces of furniture in the her in the dull inthlishing buildings room made it look even larger than and Wholesale houses, and she miss- it really- was. It looked like what • it ed evenhe tshabby green of Madison was, a very much unused bedroom in Square. H er epirits rose a bit when a Wise very Wield to large for its the cab turned into Gramercy Square. inhidiltalits. She walked to the win - All the fresh greenness of it, the dow and looked out, but the view did children playing within the iron -bar. not interest her. It was only 4:4 the red enclosure, the old-fashioned h,ous. rear of the houses on Twenty-second es and • clubs and the big, new apart Street. T,he house opposite had a ment buildings looking so clean and tiny back garden that ran out to Meet quiet in the morning sunlight, appeal:-• a similar back garden in the rear of ed do her. She rather expected the her aunt's house. Ruth did not • call cab to stop before one of the apart- this plot of ground a garden, because ment houses, but instead it stopped it had nothing growing in it except on .the north side •of the park. Her -one stunted, twistedtree on the aunt lived in a house then. This was branches of which September had also cheering.. Thecab driver car- left -a dozea pale green leaves. It iced her -bag for her up the high steps 'made heir think of an anaemic 'slum and she rang the bell with a. fast- child. Looking at it Ruth •felt sud- beating heart. • She didn't know ex- denly very sad and neglected, She aetly what she had expected -perhaps had hoped that her aunt Would not that Aunt Gloria'Would open the door be too much like a relative, hilt now in person -and she started back when she began to Persuade, herself that it was opened by a tall negro who she had looked forward to the • em - looked as ,startled as herself. - brating arms of a motherly aunt, and "Is Aunt Gloria -is Miss Mayfield her cold reception had quite 'broken atAteiRe?" her heart. Instead of a fussy, moth- . "Are you expected?" erly relative she had found, •a cold, He spoke- in a soft, precise voice selfish woman living in a house much unlike the voice of any nigger Ruth too large, surrounded by servants - had ever heard before. She knew she ,Ruth had only seen two but there must be a'sqdrvant though she was were probably more. She was unwel- L, - tat in livery, and she looked at him come; she had been shovedoff into as she answered, suddenly impressed the shabbiest room in the house by by his regular features, his straight an insolent servant. But she was hair,- and yellow-brown akin. not a pauper. She would tell her *1'She didn't know exactly When I'd aunt very coldly that she had only come, but she knew I was coming. come to- pay her respects and was C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST, A.M. Goderich 6.15 Holmesville 6.314 Clinton 6.43 Seaforth 6.59 - St. Columban 7.05 Dublin 7.12 Mitehell , 7.25 WEST , • -Mitchell Dublin St. Columban ban Clinton Goderieh 11.27 11.37 11.40 3151 12.0,4 12.35 3.53 4.10 5,25 P.M. 2.30 2.50 3.13 3.21 3.27 3.35 3.47 10.33 10.44 • 10.56 11.10 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAsT Goderich Meneset McGawAliburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto . • WEST Toronto MeNitught Walton Blith • AuburnWatt* Atelleset . .. .. .. 12.5 ilkiderieh I am her niece." • going immediately to a hotel. The servant picked up her bag, "Oh, no, Aunt Gloria; I couldn't which the cab driver had left beside think.ef' imposing on you," she could her and opened the door wider for hear herself saying, and of course her to come in. • - then her aunt would urge her to "Miss Mayfield is at home. ru stay, but she wbuldn't. What ,could let her know that you are here if you her aunt do in such a 'big house? It will Wait a few moments." was four floors and a basement. It , • She walk in a wide: hall 'now from must be full of shabby, unused rooms which an open" staircase rose ito like this one. 'Just then there was a rooms above. - Tae hall was very knock at the _door, and she hadn'tcheerful with white woodwork and even smoothed her hair or powderedgrey walls hung with etchings in liar_ her nose as she 'had intended doing row black frames. Uninvited Ruth before her aunt sent for her. perched hesitatingly on the edge of a "Come in," she said. Her voice Chippendale chair and waited. The sounded husky and unused. The words coloured manwalked to the far, end were scarcely out of her mouth when of the hall, opened a door there and the door opened and a woman swept called: ' into the room -the tallest • woman she "Amy, coine here, you." had ever seen, at least six feet tall Amy came, a round, short, ,black and slender without being -thin - a Woman of the type. most familiar to 'graceful tiger lily of a woman with Ruth. cmasses of auburn hair and big grey, To her the man evidently explain- iblacklashed -eyes 'and a straight ed the situation; but his soft voice white nose and a crushed flower of a did not carry to Ruth's end of the mouth. With one hand she was hold - hall;' not so the voice of Amy. Ruth ing a gorgeous,.:liameless garment -of coAld hear her replies quite plainly. amber silk and lace and the .other "Mis' May -field' a'n yit had her hand was held out to Ruth. Even as breakfus'-I'se jes maw makin' de she took it Ruth, realized that it tray-ef you sez so I'll tell her, but would have been pteposterdus, to have dis a'n no hohr to be talkin' to mis' expected the goddess to kiss her. Mayfier." • - ."I'm so sorry to have kept 'you Both Amy and the man disapPear- waiting -Ruth," she said. Her voice ed through the door and soon Amy waslike silver bells -ringing., emerged again carrying a breakfast "I should have wired," admitted tray. She went past Ruth aa up the Ruth. Her voice • sounded flat and st irs. Ruth was growing impatient tonless after hearing her' aunt speak. anrather 'offended. Of course she '"It would have been awkward if I should have sent a wire, but even so, hadn't happened to be in town, but Gloria Mayfield wag her aunt and she 1 was, so it's all right. You're older should • have been taken to her at than I thought, I was afraid that once. Evidently her aunt ate break- you'd turn out a little girl." fast in bed. Perhaps she was an 'in- "And you're ever so much younger valid like her mottier: Ruth hoped. than I thougia, Aunt Gloria," said ,no, Evidently too she, bad a lot more Ruth, beginning to 'gain her compo - money than Ruth had supposed. Her sure. impatience was nbt alleviated when “Thirty-five last birthday," said her Amy came " down thestairs again aunt' without speaking to, her. It was un- immediately Ruth realized that bearable that she should sit here in thirty-five was the only possible age the hall of her aunt's house, ignored 'fora woman. To be older or young - like a book agent. In another moil- er than thirty-five was infinitely dull. ent the man had reappeared.. She herself at nineteen, which only "Miss Mayfield will see you as seen a few moments ago she had' consid- as she can dress, Miss, and would you ered a very interesting age indeed, like breakfast in your room or down- was quite hopeless. stairs" "But come, we mustn't stay. in this He had picked rip Ruth's, bag as he awful roam. I didn't tell George just spoke. - where to take you. Certainly not "I've had breakfast," said Ruth. here. have a room 'fixed up for She had indeed eaten breakfast in you. Did George send for your Grand Central Station, *It was only trunks? He said you'd had break - seven 'o'clock in the morning when. fast, but that can't be true -coffee she arrived ' in Ne W Yark, and that 'perhaps, but not breakfast -1 only had seemed rather an early hour for had coffee myself. So we can eat even a relative to drop into her aunt's dogether while they're getting a home unexpectedlq. room ready , for you." . She was She followed 'the servant up the sweeping Ruth along with her down stairs, mentally commenting on how the stairs as she talked, not wait - she hated "educated niggers." ing for 'answers to anything she said. she had to 'admit there was ,nothing At the foot she turned. and opened disrespectful' in his mnner. He set a ,door' at the" left of the staircase -a • her bag down in one of the rooms and p-eered in. opening out of the circular' landing "Tho gloomy in the dining -room in and asked for her trunk bhecks, otnd. the morning.. We'll go in here," end sliggested sending Amy Up to make she tarited to the other side, opening her 'comfortable. $110 gats itim the deer into A, big rem, all furnished trunk eheekit, _refitted the Offer Of in of greY and dull gold. Ruth's, AMy'S. heip, and when he 'qua clOatid artist eye lierceiVed how Witch i sett - 'the, daftint OVA toexaMinn her P.M. 4.35 4.40 4.49 4.58 -• 5.09 ,5.21 5.32 9.45 A.M 8.20 P.M 12.104 12.15 12.28 '12110 b., b • • • • • 67 4'. ' "Wbere is the A .Statients!, rt $ng to onraiwe tie col0904 Ieaguel" aalto4 41NO0(4,fillt04147 of her -a:41*,:-, V-- lief an* ria'0"iantn4 iler; She tal4ed room w4s; i',4:,1),4,400ngs at the deeP,, high window t14:00ked out cou tbdeasnrzg despite er la a 4 Ix the -talk of art SchoOla er, "Have Amy hang ',1our breakfast in ,. "IA, Ira a sehoOl with small fees oni$ tpuch•Ot,i4Vid colour la Oat olike baalt,'.' Ruth thceightbn-t'llhlh here," said Glgj,then Ruth Saw tbat'Oeorge wan etanfling in the door- way of the teem Sill had just enter- ed, though site 40' not heard her aunt call hint, poor she observed the same thing Many times, that George alwayi appeared as a !' 'by magic and, seemingly without being tailed whenever her aunt wanted 'him_ - The room was rot of comfortable, low, cushioned chairs, and seated on two of them with .a, table_ between, on whieh George had laid a White cloth, Ruth and her 'hunt Gloria gave each other that full, scrutiny which surprise and embarrassment had Pre- viously denied them. Ruth could see now that her aunt was not' really se young as she had at first appeered. "there were fine lines aroundi her lapge eyes and art, not nature had painted her lashes -if you have a lot •of talent ..they give scholarships -I don't really know much about it, except that it's on Fitt‘Y-seventh Street seine -place, and that itis supPoaed- to be proper and good. .,You might try it for a year-, then you'll prohably be wanting Paris, In another ,year I may feel old en- ough to chaperon -you." Atter brealvfast they , went through the house, planning where Rpth should establish :herself, finallY, de- ciding on two rooms on the fourth floor, because one of 'them had a sky- light and' could beusedas a studio, where Ruth could work undisturbed. The next few • days were spent in buyingfurniture, in having the rooms retteborated, and in becoming familiar with New York. • • , Ruth was determined to be im- pressed by anything, a determination black. Her fine brows had been that led Gloria Mayfield to suspect "formed" and there were little, pale that her niece was of a phlegmatic temperament, and to wonder why she freckles gleaming on her white nose and across her long, cleanly moulded wanted to be an artist. Only the hands. Ruth saw all' these 'things quiet sense of humour that Ruth dis- played, at rare intervals, encoura,ged and they only strengthened her be - her to believe that having her niece lief that, Aunt Gloria was •the 'moat beautiful and charming with her might not be a bad arrange - the world. She hoped . very much ment" that her aunt would:like her, but she Ruth on her part discovered that N.her Aunt Gloria had a wide and var- to tell herself that this woman was not sanguine about it. She tried led circle of friends and no particu- only her father's sister, hilt it was was larly well-defined scheme of existence. hard to believe. And she discovered a little of Gloria Mayfleld's pas .K the past 'that had "Now tell me all about it," said Gloria. _ been so shrouded in mystery in her "There's very little to tell. Mother mother's house. It was when Ruth bad made a remark about her aunt died -on the tenth -your letter aniv- e. ed on the same , day. Of course it living alone in such a large hatis "Yes,,it is large, but what am I wasn't unexpected. She had 'been. an to do?" said Gloria. "My second hus- invalid for aImost ten years, so it hand whithed it, on. Me and my third wasn't ,a shock. was the only rela- w tive at the funeral,. but Mother had was kind enough to settle enough in- evercome 04 me to pay the taxes, and so many friends-" . there you are. Of course I could let She. paused, wondering if she ought it to some one else, but it's nice to to tell Aunt Gloria about the floWers, ' the Eastern Star wreath, and- lave a lotof room." "I don't mean that," Gloria inter- . Ruth could not disguise her shock ,,/ mean hew and astonishment. • rupted her thoughts. your mother happened, to suggest that you, come here. You,know Jack's wife didn't approve of me -refused to meet me even, and I can't under- atand. Was there some sort of death bed forgiveness, or What?" There was the faintest trace of mockery her voice, but somehow Ruth could not be angry, though she knew Jthat this woman, her father's sister, was laughing at her dead Mother and her dead mother's con- ventions and Moralities. She decid- ed that she would be as frank as her aunt. "No, Aunt Gloria. f • don't think Mother's views had changed at all. She sent me here because you ,are my only living relative and • she thought I was too young to live alone -and I Cana," she continued brave- ly, "because New -York is the best place in America - to study art and I want to be a great -painter. But if you don't want me here 111 live alone -I have money you know, and Mother intended that I should pay my own way." • "I understand," said Gloria, nod- ding. "That would be in character -.a sort of blood is stronger than Bohemia idea." "And then," continued Ruth, de- termined to be. absolutely frank, think. Mother was under the impres- sion that you were olden than you are, and had settled, down -you have retired from the stage?" Again Gloria, laughed. • My dear child, I've done nothing but retire from tile stage ever since I first went on it. hilt - that doesn't matter. I agree with yOur mother that you will bb much -better off here with me than Mane,' and I shall -be very glad le have you -it means one more permanent resident in this huge barn, of a -house. Only please don't call me AuntCall me O141a. My being your aunt is nore or lesS of an accident. The fact that 1 like you is of vastly more importance, and if you like me we shall get on very well to- gether." �� • •O'faX , '1414•1:34'*01$?•tWOr4‘••,:Ws 4bt ,' ilger110,‘, . .-011AITER .1 ..,..';'', -o..•-,--,. • Rath -wel.44 ,40./.0, 1m04. a OP.114M,. 8ai1n-440:kAPP.P0., 00 ,Oo4tf,:.4,4,44 1.4 aguyd *0 *au, taa's/ut. 40.', $tudonte. Laa6a, but 1)00000 scholarship 'would 'llitve -MeiUt.thiA She bad unusualtalent; bltt.' ii$4.1-O didn't get one. No gine seemed ,ptia%°' ticularly interested In her work, 00 woman who enrolled her in •the League was as casual as a clerk in. a hotel. the uanirOr-of the enrolment' clerk and the grandeur of the Fine Arts' Building : produced a feeling of insig- ntflcanee in Ruth that was. far from. pleifsant. , She engaged her tocker.for the year, and -when she was led to it to-7plit her board and paints away, and saw the rows upon rows of other lockers,,, she .felit even smellier. Was it Pasaible that all ,those lockers were needed? That so -many other girls and boys werealso art students? If there was an artstudent for every locker and each of them shared her determination to .beeorne a great painter, the -World woUid be So -flood* ed with 'sPlendid art that one might better be a stenographer. Then she comforted herself that all the• students could not possibly succeed. Some of them, the girls especially, would doubtless give up art for marriage and babies. Some of the men would became ,commercialized, go in for il- lustrating, or even advertising,,, but she would go "onward and upward," as her instructor in Indianapolis had so thrillingly:said. She felt better after that; and seeing her reflection in a shop window she felt better still. She wasn't beautiful, ,but she was in- teresting looking, she told herself. The way she combed her almost black hair down over her ears Madonna fashion,'. her little low-heeled shoes, her complete absence of waist line, all marked her at "different." She had enrolled for the morning class ' in portrait painting from t9:00 to 12:30 and the afternoon class' Iu fife drawing from .1:00 to 4:30 and she would attend the Friday after- noon lectures on anatomy. They be. gan at 4:30, after the first of Novem- ber, so she .could go direct from her didn't_you.know?"_asked_Glar-4.1ife. class to the, lecture.. She wenlvt "sly word, child, 1t' siF ilght tOE at it. It's bad n ugh to begin. at tie 141g0i h40 .glOrAulOg erward Ruth was glad tli L -he not enroflel in any of the ven - just when .Gioria.'S day seemed gh :het five o'clock in the aftaraueV nings there,l u Grainercy Square about lways people there who interested thwth;i,00tell'hgdahlwl petty) begun, and there 741'491 in the nd she conversation!' Ruth would ,c040.101t9, tle and. Gloria would coli to her ushe her kt1:00.1•11 big t Under_De;4: ortable room and be introduced to hal; dos- enrei4em oeoboelere1.6, e e h°nanipeoep5le swheould4eli."*991:''. to her 1d 'go on wittr-their-ediVer;t, sation and she would sit back listen- ing and watching, feeling more like an audiene,e at a play than one of .the group of people in a drawing,rooM• Most of the conversation was quito. meaningless to her, but there ; was one man, one of the few who did not. change in the ever-changing group, who interested her intensely.', She gathered ,that he was a .plaY"W'right. and that he had written the book and lyrics for a ,musical comedy that was to have its New York premiere soon. One of the other men called him a show doctor, and said that he had written lines into over half the shows on Broadway. All of the -other people seemed to thing him "terribly clever," but Ruth didn't understand all of the things at which they laughed- They Were al- , ways begging him to sing .hin latest song, and he never demurred, titougb any one could tell with haU in ear that he hadn't any voice at all. He sang in a. queer, halk-clianty voice, with a curious appealing note' hi it. "Do you really like his singing?" she once asked Gloria. tnetWe*) • en4 • 0 tx t• "I think you're wonderful," admit- ted Ruth, blushing deeply. "Very well, thea, yoU shall. stay 'here -you can have two rooms or more if you want"era fixed up to suit yourself, and you can spend your in- come. on your clothes land ybur edu- cation -but you Will 'be, here as my guest, not as my relative, ' I dislike 'relatives inordinately-Ldon't you?" Without ' giving Ruth time to reply. she Went on: "Ilave you thought about where you'regoing to stuor- - "Proi Is pose there are.a. num' of pi Iraer ." ,., "The' ra .itrev' of candled Art. 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