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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1903-07-30, Page 3For family use there is no better tea than 1 particu a<° y those f.mtuilies who like the �e�1 : 1/:,l d roox:;t delicious tea at a re;an(:,i:,lafr. ;' (num, vat ,1r.t,; ;„- rr h-(g1(alrtalosttner:r. tlis fiutraIian rio fl GEM IN ME ROUGH Alfred made no contradiction, sur a simplex reason; he had not. listened to her last sentences : ho was think- ing flow well Rho lit off the !lush, and low nicely site quoted poetry. Ile avis HI1011 for some minutes. 'then 110 sold earnestly: ” 1 wish, My furling, that you oouhd sometimes tail; to to mymother ke that !" tilat!ys returned from the antipodes In a flash. "I shall never talk to any of your people any more about Australia!" and, by her tone, site meant it. " Why not ?" "Because they don't like It, Alfred ; I see they don't, though I never see it so clearly as when It's all over end too late, Tet why should they hate It sea ? Why should Il annoy thein? I've nothing rises to talk about, tool 1 should have thought they'd like to hear of another coun- try. I know I liked to hear all about England from you, Alfred !" Faint though It wee, the reproach in het voice cut him to the heart. Yet his moment had come. H0 had decided, it le true, to say nothing at all; but then there had been no opening, and here Wag 0110 such as might never conte again. "Gladdte," )y0 began, with great tenderness, "don't be lulrt, but I'm going to tell you what may have something to de with it. You know, you' aro apt to get -I won't say ex- clted-bud perhaps a little too en- tbusingtkc, when you talk of the bueh( Quito right -and no wonder, I say -but then, here hi England, elemehOW, they very seldom seem to get enthuslastte. Then, again -I thtnk-perhaps-you say things that are all right out there, but mound odd to our ridiculous ears. For 100 are an abominable, 'neuter natio(( of humbugs—" began poor Alfred with a tremendous burst of indignation, fearing that Ito had said too much, and making a floundering effort to get out of what he had said. But hie wife out Mali alert, The color h'ad mounted to mor olive Wrecks, Benueless, at all events, wan not among her failings -whet Mlle kept calm, She was sufficiently calm now. , "I see what you 11101111, and I , Mall certainly say no more about , Australia. 'I like it ratan that le Well-bred!' Do you remember how 1 Daft Larry used to wag file head and say that whenever he saw you ? 'Yon'ru not, one of the low Hort,' he , ailed to go on; and how we did laugh! But I've been thinking, Al- I. :red, that he couldn't have said the sante about me, if Pel been a titan. ; And -and that's at the bottom of it all 1" Site smiled, but her smut was sail. "You are offended, 01111170" "Not a bit. Only I seem, to ander- , stand!' , 'You don't understand! And that i isn't at the bottom, of it N "Very well, then, it Isn't. So slop frowning like that this Instant. I'd Do Idea you looked so well when you were fierce. I shall make you fierce often now. Conte, you etupld boy 1 I shah learn in tine. flow do ,von know I'm not learning already!Cone away; we've had enough of the water -hole, I think." BA1131'e VITALITY. Tiro vitality of infanta and young o1Utlren la at its lowest point dur- lag the hot weather. More children die In summer than at any other season. This Is because the little ones suffer more from bowel trou- bles( are nerv-ous, weak, sleepless and Irritable. Prompt action Often eaves a valuable little life, and troubles of this kind can be prompt- ly met and cured by giving the lit- tle ones Baby's Own Tablet', which should be kept In every (tome ready for emergencies. These Tablets tt�eediJy relieve and promptly cure all stamacll. hovel and other hot weather allmont8, and give 41011(1 refreshing sleep. Sirs. P. Frrrgneon, No. 101 Mansfield sorest, Montreal, Nays: "My baby wane attacked with dysentery and was hot and fever- ish.. I gave ilfm Baby's Own Tnb- lets and they promptly cured hint. Before this he had been rather de- licate, but eine using the Tablets be hate been better and stronger in every way." These Tablets can be given with an absolute certainty that they will do good to all children from a new been upwards. They contain no opi- ate »r poisonous "soothing" stuff. Bold by medicine dealetle or mailed let 26 tarots a boa by writing direct to Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brockville, Ont. She took its arm, and together they struck across to Haut Gate. But Alfred was silent and 'needy; and the bride kucw why. "limo: slid Alfred," she said at lost, pressing his arta with her hand, "I know 1 shall get on well with all your 'merle, in time." "All of them. (Huddle ?" "At any rate, ail but Granville." "ALB not Gran! I was afraid of It." "No, 1 shall never Dare much about (lxun: 1 can't help it, really 1 snort. lin le everla41liigly sneering, and he Unlike himself so much snorter than ho ie. Then he enjoys It when I make a fool of myself ; I see he does; and - oh I can't bear him 1" A poguaciotl8 expression came Into Alfred's (nee, but passed over, and left it only stern. "Yes," he said, "I know 11144 infernal manner ; but, when 1(0 sneers, it's only to shote what a superior sort of fellow he Is; he doesn't moan any- thing by'it. Tho troth is, I fuer 11041 becoming la bit of a snob ; hat at least hr.'s a far better fellow than you think ; there really isn't 0 better follow going. Take my word for It, and for heaven's sake avoid words with hint ; will you promise ale this ]lucin, Glndrao 1" "Very well -though I have once or twice thought that there'd be a row between fur, and thought I do think that what he'd hear from me would do hint all the good le the world. But I pronise. And I pro- mise, loo, not to gas about Austra- lia to any of theca for 0 whole week. So there." They. walked on, almost in silence, until Hant Common was crossed, and they had reached the, middle of the delightful green. And here -with the old-fashioned houses on three stiles of theft, and the avenue of elate be- hind tient, and the most orthodox of village dunk -ponds at their feet - Gladys stopped short, and fairly burst into raptures. "But," said Alfred, as 110011 as he could got a word in, wl4iclt was not Immediately, "you go on as though this tufts the first real, gentile° Eng- lish village you'd seen; whereas no- thing could be more entirely and typi- cally English than Twickenham it- self." "Ah, but this seems miles and miles away front Twickenham, 11,11(1 all the outer villages round about that I've 4141011. I thick I would rather live here, where it is so quiet and still, like a bash township. I like Twickenham; put on' ono side there's nothing but people going up and down in bottle, and on the other eldr, the same thing, only couche* lnetetul of boats, And I hate the sound of those coach s, with their Jingle mid rattle and horn - blowing. ; though I shouldn't hate it if. I were on one." "Would you so very much like to fizz around, on a coach, then ?" "Would I not 1" said Gladys. The first per000 they saw, on get- tblg home, was Granville, who wog loungblg In the little ver(uukt, where they had. taken tea on the afternoon of their arrival, smoking cigarettes over. (t book, It was the first volume of a )()vel, W111011 he was scanning for review, lie seemed disposed to be agreeable. "Gladys," he sold, "this bcxtk's about AustrnlJa ; who is a 'now chum,please? I may as well know, 118, so far, the hero's one," ".A 'new chum,' hie 810(41( -In -low an- swered readily, "1s some fellow newly out from home, who goes up the Bush ; 014(1 1/°'s generally a fool," "Thunk you." said Granville; "the hero of this story answers ht every 1)0rtlentnr to your definition." Gra x1118 went on with lite skim- ming. On a elle of paper lying handy were the skeletons of Rome of the 'mart epigrammatic sentences with which the book would presently be pulverized. Husband and wife had gone through Into the house, leaving Ides to hie congenial task ; when the Tempter, in humorous mood, put it into the Mead of his good friend Granville to call back the bride for a moment's sport, "1 say "-the young man assumed the nor of the tenement interlocutor - "le it true that everyone out there wears a big black beard, and a red shirt, and Jack -boots and revol- vers ?" "No, it Is not ; whd says so ?" "Well, tide fellow gives me that Imlpreselon. In point e'[ fact, It al- waye was my Impres'Loo. Isn't It a fact, however, that meet of your leg- islators (I meant to ask you this last night, but our friend the sen- ator gave me no chance) -that most of your legttators are convicts?" Dons your book give you that lin- "I thought lie would never for- pr0s81oe too t" the bride inquired glvo m° for giving 111/11 that bit of "No ; that's original, more or less." y wrong, nitegethcl', ISut, sty mind tho other day; but you 1100, Alfred, it did him good; and now I like him better than t ever ser herr, (;ran; you ()tight. to go out thought possible In this world. Iles there." "Wlir , prey :", „lea remember what i said at 'new Clem' wile ^„ "Ten; among °tiler things, It fool." "Eery good. You ought to go out there. 11ecnese there are the nl1It1,i s awfully goal to me. And w•o tithe un Interest in the same sort of things. Didn't you hoar how Inter- ested 110 was 11 Bella's sweetheart at lunch to -day?" Alfred turned away from the fresh br1ght face that was (aloud to 1118, of such a splendid 'flew (muni In you. 110 could not retirees a frown. You're thrown away in England." "I do ((1811 jou wouldu'( cull tits girl Grenville dropped hie book and put 1 Bella," he wild, 101111 HOMO irritation. up 1118 0,1e-glas41. But the bride was I "ller name's Brun. Why don't yeti gone. :She hod already overtaken mill her Bunn, dour? And uobud,y Iter Itafbnnd, slid seized dint by the dreams of making talk ((bout their tare. maids' affairs, lot alone their militia' "Oh, :llfrod," she cried, "I havedone ,vowig men, at the table., It's nut the it ! I have broken my promise l I eiwit' n -sol 1u England." have haul words with Oran 1 Oh, my A week ago he would not have re - poor 110.4 -rat beginning to make youwish to goodness you'd never seen Lot o with her upon se small tmutter; but the lee had been broken 1(10-1 feel i am I" Lot meriting to Richmond Park, And CHIPPER Vi(1. a week ago tate would very likely All taco mayb" vain, but the van- have toll 1/m, 4iug1(. to hang hie ity was vol tau ovally satisfied by English costume; buutt 11now oho looked bath inetl and u c e e1- zzld ( his owe perfurnutncee. This made haw it is she b 6 (lr40 til altack, tlu'o h aettln up 111 Ihla to exploit' toiher t1/( harm w ug u ill wluat mho had said. a hlgti standard, of that kind ; but it '2144110 ?" said Alfred, more tender- ly, his defense somewhat weals for iv said there was no real harm In want of practice.. His war was al- it -that's the wrong word altogether ways it 0.1101 the enemy's lines. Ile -OPS Ily as we were byourselves 1olid fol mush attention to !de at- without tack. 'l'lu)8, though uutoom touched by guests. Still, you know, the g mother dur8n't want to hear all an (adversary, when touched he was about her servants' family nihilist, 4000(91(4; 011(1, what yam likely to (1na1 what her servants' sweethearts mill to a ❑gahlst ; t( t1rofeesionat aro doing In Australia, or anywhere chances, when wounded he Was gen- els1,. Ali that-purtloularly when you orally wi(,6.ea. tile own akin was too talk of the woman by her Christian tido; lee had not yet learned to take tutt11e-sounds very Wuoh-why, It without (a twinge what Its gave sounds almost ((.s though you made. (a without a qualm;; for a smart and personal friend of the girl, Muddle "' (tggresstvo young man Ile was simply ttludy8 opened wide her lovely (absurdly sensitive, eyes. 'Why. Ho I do 1" But, though weaker In defense than Allred looked uncomfortable. might hate been expected, Granville ".and why not, pray? There , on was nu wean hand at retaliation. y Ile neither forgot nor forgave; and see you kucw of no reason why I ( shouldn't bo friends with her, ho paid off old scores and neworlon you goose ! But, 1 11,01)'t with the heavy interest demanded speak of her any more as by his exorbitant vanity. Here Bella, if you don't Ilke-except to again Ile vanity ons very fastidious. her face. I 'shall call her what 1 First or last, by fair means or foul, please to her face, sir ! But, tn- Grnnv111e woe to finish a winner. deed, I wouldn't have spokenulout Until he did, hie vanity and he were her at all to -day, only I Was Inter- net en sneaking terms ested to know her young man was There were occasions, of coarse, out there ; and Grua seemed as In - when he wan not in a position either torested as me, for he (vent on ask - to riposte at once or to whet 1118 log questiov14—" blade and pray for the (text merry Alfred was quite himself ugaiu. meeting. Such cases occurred some- "Ally way, darling," he said, inter - times in court, when the bench rupting her with a kiss, "1 nm glad w0uid stand no nonsense, and you have got over your prejudice brusquely sold as mulch, if not rather lookinggs� it ho went out, more. Incredible as It may seem, t ; but leaving behind him however, Granville felt his Impotency Less of gladness thou he curried hardly less 1n the public streets, away• when he happened to be unusually The 0000ersnlion had taken place wall -dressed and gutter -chaff rose to in the little mu410, -room in the the Occasion. Iu iapt, probably the front of the louse, which faoett the worst half -Hour Ile Deer spa lit in his we(; and the etroug afternoon stin- life was ono fine morning when un- shine, ng tag town through the accoultabla energy actuated hint to trembling tree -tops, dappled the walk to Richmond, and take the train bride's face with lights and shadows. It was not, at the there, instead of getting In at Twick- moment, a v1ry happy flee. A11 the enhan1; for, encountering a motley reckless, radiant, aggressive 1ude- and interminable string of vehicles, penden0e of two or three weeks ago on roue to Gomptou Park, Ile ran Was gone Out of it. The bold, direct a gauntlet of plebelne satire during g11110e w118 somewhat nese bold. The that halt -hour, such as ho never en- dark, lustrous, lovely eyes were bo- ((rely 00(11(1 forget. come strangely wistful. Gladys wan 1'o 111000 nlomauable experiences, in trouble. tho bride's piece of rudeness 'Jure- It had crept upon her by slow de- flncd (which she had the bad taste grecs, :shade by shade the fatal truth to perpetrate at tin. very moment Ited 1111w11ed eyed upon her -the. (1la- whon Ito was being rude. to her, but portly between herself and her new le it gentlemanlike way) (vas mimed relatives. This wan plainer to no one a mere trifle; but Granville, it will now then to the bride herself; and now bo such, thought more of tri- to her the disparity meant &tent r- (Ios than tho ordinary rational (411- it was &t wide -sad It grew wider lmul ; and 1111e one completely al- clay by day, as her realization of it tared Ills (attitude tow'ard4 Gladys, locum" couplets. Well, she had made If, hitherto, he haul ridiculed her, friends with Granville, but 110(1 was delicately, to her face, and dispar- n11. The Judge had been distant and aged Iter -with less delicacy -behind ceremonious from the first ; he was her back, he Itad been merely Sur- distant and oeremoulone 0111!. He suing a species of intellectual sport, had 11000r agate unbent ;so much without much 10011(10(18 latent. Ile as at that tragic moment w11011 he was not 14(4111)0 that 110 hal ever bade her rl'e from her knees in the made the pan' thing uncomfortable, wet stable -yawl. As for Lady fifth, 1(o had not inquired into that. Ho elle hal begun by being kind enough; was only awaro that ho had more but her kindness had rel to silent than oleo hal 111s Joko out of her, Badness. She seemed full of regrets. and enjoyed it, and felt pleased with lil(adyu was 841 far from her as ever. himself. But hie sentiment towards And Gladys knew the reasons for all 1(01 was no longer so devoid of ani- this -some of them. She saw, now,the malty. 13110 had scored him off ; he most conspicuous among her own had felt It /efficiently at the mo- shortcomings; an(i against those mont; but tae felt it much that she did see (Heaven knows) 8110 more when it had rankled struggled strenuously. But there a little. And he despised were many ehe could not see, yet ; and detested himself for having been scored off, even without wltl(es8e8, by a creature so coarse au1(1 con- temptible. Ile was too vale to satisfy Mimeo!! with the comfortable, Masan, and deservedly popular principle that certain unplresnntneeso8 and certain unpletlseu)t people are "beneath no- tice," Nobody wee beneath Gran- ville's (lotion ; he would have putt - lobed with his own boot the young blackguards of the gutter, could he have been sure of catching them, and e10011.8' mire of not being Been ; and 110 punished Gladys In a fixation that precluded detection -even Gladys her- 1df never knew she was under the Mato. On the contrary, she ('0180(1 Go (115- llk° her brother -In-law, Ile was be- come more polite to her than ho hod ever bceu before; more affable and :ritually In every way. Quito 1udden- ly, they were brother and sisterto- gether, "How 40011 those two get on " Lady Bllgh would whisper to her husban(1, during the solemn game of bezique which was an institution of their ()m- eter evenings; and, ind00d, 1110 bride (1011 her brother-inrLaw had token to talking and laughing a good deal in the. twilight 112- the open window. But, e0.0er or inter, (go ny111e twits entre to come over to the card - table with Gladys latest stony or enylug,wlth whlrpl ho would appear to 1x1 hugely 1111)110x1; and the ame ho delighted to repeat in its original vernacular, and with 1(41 original (lips of grammar, but with Ids own faultless neeent-which emphasized floe() peculiarities, making Lady Bligh sigh e.ully and Sar James look 08 though he did not hear. And Alfred wag too well pleased that hie wife had coat + to 11ko Grenville at last, to listen to what they were talking about; and the poor girl herself never once suspected the un- kindness ; far from It, Indeed, for eke tlked Granville now, else felt tide, vagnely ; and it en title that filled her with despair. It was green grass that she gaze out upon from the morning -room win- dow, net the trouble deepened fuller eyes; and in Australia she had sel- dom amen grass that was green. But Jaet then she would have given all the meadows of England for one strip of dry sill -bosh plait, with the sun dr(x(putg down behind the far -away tile, of somber, low -sized scrub, and the snarl -lolls flushing in the blood - red light, and the cool evening wind coating up from tato south. Tho pic- ture was very real to her -as real, for the moment, as thlo sllavengrass- plot, and the lino of tall trees that shadowed it, with; their trunks indls- tinguishable, In this light, against the old brick wall. The ehe sighed, and the. vision vanished -and she thought of 'Alfred, (To be Continued,) FEEDINCi THE CONSUMPTIVE. 01e111.4.; Ano the Alu,,t ! otortulo Part ol'Treatment. The annual report on tile work of the c' It('H tuberculosis Infirmary Is important as showing the great re - Pinney now ,placed en food to cure consumption. Once drugs were all in the treat- ment of this most dreudfut of Ole - NINON, and the morta1/ty progressed with increasing strides. Then pure air ons the essential thing, (111 patients who could afford It went to California, to the dry alkali at- moephere of Arizona, to Um ley moun- tains of Switzerland. Now, the en- lightened practitioner keeps the 141110nt. comfortably at Moue, amid the home surroundings, makes tho most 110 cin 'of the local air, Creat though It may leek qualities de4lr- able for the best results, and teeth; the 10(tl(nt to the top of hie aselm- Rellve capacity -stuffs hlut on the Strnehurg g04.(0e 411110lptu, and wel- comes 0 congested liver at the gain of strength ((11(1 vitality and flesh, 11 (s the Course of t41800411. I4 Is oleo, incidentally, nu hUerosting In - trident in the malern medical Pro- greso( wheel effects more 11, the way til rare; without drugs than the physleions of cur grandfathers ef- fected with them. At the tuberculosis Infirmary pa- tients are required to take nourl8h- meet nine times a day, as follows: At (i, a breakfast of cereals, bread and butter, coffee and beefsteak br [ranched eggs. At 8, cod 1!000 oil, with whiskey or 1herry, At 10, egg -nog, At 112, dinner, consisting of soap, beet 01' mutton, potato(e, another vegetable and bread. At cod liver oil, and plenty el sl(err,y. A't 41, beef ten. At 4, Ogg -nog, At ,, supper of pudding, 14 eon - boded egg, bread and butte', tea. At 8, hot or cold milk. Then to bed for nine hours' sleep. And not all times during the day cheerfnlnees 011d hope --a mental atmosphere more than eom(pcnsating for any lack 01 foule qualifies in rho air, ( Li not this common 80(400, enlight- ened therapeutics 2 Not a drug on 1110 entire dietary. And the 10'00000 in the healing of the patient is this: First, 0 slow decrease in the 13941 of 10411441(1, then a atnndOtitl. Then a slight gain, an einem or two. Then n hone(1, then (1(141itioua of flesh that are visible, the p1unpe4-out elivek8, the alertor mind, the more 0elt1-0 lig-gement. Also there Is an excellent pointer in 41110 (dietary for the parson who lo growing weak and ailing, Notice how much reliance is put on . eggs and milk ! lo moments of exhnnotlon Why awl Inks a raw egg, with sherry, or an egg -nog, or an unsweetened milk punch ? It may check a ten, (141ncy to consumption, find rho phy- 810111 benefit. derived will excuse any apprehended deterioration of the moral character. -New York Evening World. Mothers Not Allowed to Falk. New York sun. Dorcas -Did you 11011 anything to (ay at roar club meeting Sirs. Dorcas -Why, of course net. s I Only (110 single members were al - loom! to speak. T1to debate 101311 On d I low 10 bring up a family. eak, Languid, Sickly Children Who Crow Up Frail of Body and Exhausted In Nerve Force Are Wonderfully Benefited by Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. It is a puzzle to tunny parents to: writes; "11y son, agiari fourteen, know just whit. to 410 for children and little girl of throe years, were when they gel pale, weak and Ian- loth stricken with ;it.. Vitus' Dance, geld, Tose thole appetite and limbi -j The doctor toll us ,what the all - (ton, and seem to gradually fall in' Ment was, but could not keep them health aid Strength. 1from getting worse and worse, so Brea 1100 Of lie mild and ,gentle when I reeelved n Nook about Dr. action 1)r. Chase'() Nerve Food IN re- Chase's Nerve Fort], i decided to pectally suitable to the needs of try 1t. The boy Mid lost eighteen children, and endorsed by a great many gmtete I parent 8. WK. George P. I.n'Ighli, Lake 0(ree!, Pride hero, Ont., stntee; "Ono of my 01(1 (Iron, a boy of about fifteen years, did not , have good i nith for a year or more. He seemed to have no energy, was week and languid and suffered from ner- vousness, The doctors said that lio was growing too Past, but we he- mline o-cline alarmed about him, and began u01n.g Dr. C'hase's Nerve Food. It wail not king mite we noticed it great change to hie condition. His appetite improved, he had a better color and soon became stronger and healthier. Ile Is 8t111 using the Nerve Food, and w.o are perfectly confident that he le Improving right along under this treatment." Mrs. D. Ardloe, Brandon, Man., pounds to two months, rend could scarcely take hold of anything. Tho little girl lost We pewter of her longue, and could sonrcely speak. "I now take pleasure in (doling that they ore both Suite well, and you would never know there Imd Inner, anything the muter. 'Phe boy hub gabled twenty poumle Ip weight. I am very thankful there le 414101 41. 1110(11040' on filo market, and tlmat I tui 01'' (0411 to 44"t the little book Just when i did. It Jest came In time as 1t. iugit it lizel been scot on parpese." Pr. Cite se's Nei't0 Forxl, 'i1 ciente n. hoz at all dealer*, or FAnia loon, II aye & ('3., Toronto. 1'o protect you egahlst Imitations, the per. trait and signaler(' of itr. .1. W. chase, the famous receipt book autht lir, are OD every mux.